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ReviewTherapeutic advances in medical oncology2024

From biology to clinical practice: antiproliferative effects of somatostatin analogs in neuroendocrine neoplasms.

Philipp Melhorn, Peter Mazal, Ladislaia Wolff, Elisabeth Kretschmer-Chott, Markus Raderer, Barbara Kiesewetter

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Review in Therapeutic advances in medical oncology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Spatial Transcriptomics Reveals Location-Specific Tumor Cell Subtypes and Signaling within Multifocal Small Intestinal Neuroendocrine Tumors.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Philipp MelhornDivision of Oncology, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8920-0206
Peter MazalDepartment of Pathology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Ladislaia WolffDivision of Oncology, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Elisabeth Kretschmer-ChottDivision of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Markus RadererDivision of Oncology, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, Vienna A-1090, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3248-5802
Barbara KiesewetterDivision of Oncology, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5490-2371
Medical University of Vienna · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Somatostatin analogs (SSA), specifically octreotide and lanreotide, have demonstrated antiproliferative effects in patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NET), a group of rare malignancies of diverse origin and presentation. A prominent feature of NET cells is the expression of G protein-coupled receptors called somatostatin receptors (SSTR). Although these SSTR are not uniformly present in NET, they can be instrumental in the diagnosis and treatment of NET. Apart from their application in nuclear imaging and radionuclide therapy, SSA have proven invaluable in the treatment of hormonal syndromes associated with certain NET (antisecretory effects of SSA), but it took more than two decades to convincingly demonstrate the antiproliferative effects of SSA in metastatic NET with the two pivotal studies PROMID and CLARINET. The current review summarizes three decades of SSA treatment and provides an overview of the clinical trial landscape for SSA monotherapy and combination therapy, including clinical implications and quality of life aspects, as well as ongoing fields of research.

Indexed as

carcinoid syndromeneuroendocrine neoplasmsneuroendocrine tumorssomatostatin analogssomatostatin receptors

Identifiers

PMID38529270
PMCPMC10962050
OpenAlexW4393169617

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