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Systematic literature review of the antitumor effect of octreotide in neuroendocrine tumors
Barrows, S. M., Cai, B., Copley-merriman, C., Wright, K. R., Castro, C. V., & Soufi-mahjoubi, R. (2018). Systematic literature review of the antitumor effect of octreotide in neuroendocrine tumors. World Journal of Meta-Analysis, 6(2), 9-20. https://doi.org/10.13105/wjma.v6.i2.9
To provide a comprehensive examination of the existing evidence of the antitumor effect of long-acting octreotide in neuroendocrine tumors (NETs).
METHODS
A systematic literature review of clinical trials and observational studies was conducted in PubMed, EM-BASE, and Cochrane through January 18, 2017. Conference abstracts for 2015 and 2016 from 5 scientific meetings were also searched.
RESULTS
Of 41 articles/abstracts identified, 13 unique studies compared octreotide with active or no treatment. Two of the 13 studies were clinical trials; the remaining were observational studies. The phase 3 Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind, Prospective, Randomized Study of the Effect of Octreotide long-acting repeatable (LAR) in the Control of Tumor Growth in Patients with Metastatic Neuroendocrine Midgut Tumors clinical trial showed that long-acting octreotide significantly prolonged time to tumor progression compared with placebo in patients with functionally active and inactive metastatic midgut NETs; no statistically significant difference in overall survival (OS) was observed, possibly due to the crossover of placebo patients to octreotide. Retrospective observational studies found that long-acting octreotide use was associated with significantly longer OS than no octreotide use for patients with distant metastases although not for those with local/regional disease.
CONCLUSION
The clinical trial and observational studies with informative evidence support long-acting octreotide's antitumor effect on time to tumor progression and OS. This review showed the rarity of existing studies assessing octreotide's antitumor effect and recommends that future research is warranted. (C) The Author(s) 2018. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved.
