ArticleCurrent oncology (Toronto, Ont.)2021
Complete and Durable Response to Nivolumab in Recurrent Poorly Differentiated Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Carcinoma with High Tumor Mutational Burden.
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- Pembrolizumab alone and pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy in previously treated, extrapulmonary poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinomas.British journal of cancer · 2023Trial
- Poorly Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumors of the Pancreas: A Comparative Analysis of Primary Versus Secondary Tumors-A Literature Review.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy in Neuroendocrine Tumors.Hormone and metabolic research = Hormon- und Stoffwechselforschung = Hormones et metabolisme · 2022Review
- Liver Transplantation for Non-hepatocellular Carcinoma: The Role of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors.Journal of clinical and experimental hepatologyReview
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Abstract
Poorly differentiated pancreatic neuroendocrine carcinomas (NECs) are rare and aggressive malignancies with rapid disease progression and early widespread metastasis. Given histology similarity, they are commonly treated with platinum-based chemotherapy as small cell lung cancer (SCLC). However, no standard treatment has been established for recurrent or progressive disease. We present an Asian patient with recurrent poorly differentiated pancreatic NEC after curative surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy with cisplatin and etoposide. The tumor mutational burden (TMB) was high. The patient received chemotherapy combined with maintenance immunotherapy with nivolumab and achieved promising and durable response, suggesting TMB could be a biomarker to identify NEC patients for immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment.
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