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ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2020

The Challenge of Evaluating Response to Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy in Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: The Present and the Future.

Virginia Liberini, Martin W Huellner, Serena Grimaldi, Monica Finessi, Philippe Thuillier, Alfredo Muni, Riccardo E Pellerito, Mauro G Papotti, Alessandro Piovesan, Emanuela Arvat and 1 more

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In one paragraph

Review in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.

Virginia LiberiniNuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy.
Martin W HuellnerDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-4849-3292
Serena GrimaldiNuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy.
Monica FinessiNuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy.
Philippe ThuillierNuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy.
Alfredo MuniDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, S.S. Biagio e Antonio e C. Arrigo Hospital, 15121 Alessandria, Italy.
Riccardo E PelleritoDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, AO Ordine Mauriziano di Torino, 10128 Turin, Italy.
Mauro G PapottiPathology Unit, City of Health and Science University Hospital, 10126 Turin, Italy.
Alessandro PiovesanDepartment of Endocrinology, A. O. U. Città della Salute della Scienza of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy.
Emanuela ArvatOncological Endocrinology, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy.
Désirée DeandreisNuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, 10126 Turin, Italy.
University of Turin · ITUniversity of Zurich · CHA. O. Ordine Mauriziano di Torino · ITAzienda Ospedaliera Citta' della Salute e della Scienza di Torino · ITAzienda Ospedaliera Nazionale SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo · ITCentre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Brest · FRFondazione Ricerca Molinette · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The NETTER-1 study has proven peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) to be one of the most effective therapeutic options for metastatic neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), improving progression-free survival and overall survival. However, PRRT response assessment is challenging and no consensus on methods and timing has yet been reached among experts in the field. This issue is owed to the suboptimal sensitivity and specificity of clinical biomarkers, limitations of morphological response criteria in slowly growing tumors and necrotic changes after therapy, a lack of standardized parameters and timing of functional imaging and the heterogeneity of PRRT protocols in the literature. The aim of this article is to review the most relevant current approaches for PRRT efficacy prediction and response assessment criteria in order to provide an overview of suitable tools for safe and efficacious PRRT.

Indexed as

18F-FDG68Ga-labeled somatostatin analogueNETneuroendocrine tumorspeptide receptor radionuclide therapyPRRTRECISTresponse assessmentSWOGWHO

Identifiers

PMID33322819
PMCPMC7763988
OpenAlexW3104364527

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