June 5, 2018

Positioning 177-Lu-Dotatate Therapy and 68-Ga-Dotatate Scans in Management of Neuroendocrine Tumors

The results of the phase III NETTER-1 trial, recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine,1 have been met with great interest by clinicians who treat neuroendocrine tumors. In patients with advanced midgut lesions, treatment with the radiopharmaceutical lutetium-177-Dotatate (177-Lu-Dotatate; Lutathera) led to markedly longer progression-free survival and significantly higher response rates vs the control arm. {read more here}