The expanding role of somatostatin analogs in gastroenteropancreatic and lung neuroendocrine tumors

Drugs

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 847-858

  Cives, Mauro ^a   Strosberg, Jonathan ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPEPTIN; OCTREOTIDE; PASIREOTIDE; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE; SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR; ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS; CYCLOPEPTIDE; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANTIPROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY; BLOATING; BRADYCARDIA; CANCER PATIENT; CARCINOID SYNDROME; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG TARGETING; DRUG TOLERABILITY; GASTROENTEROPANCREATIC NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LUNG NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NAUSEA; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; STEATORRHEA; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS; OCTREOTIDE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; SOMATOSTATIN; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84930182341     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: 11791950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40265-015-0397-7     Document Type: Review

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