Everolimus for Advanced Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
Author(s) -
James C. Yao,
Manisha H. Shah,
Tetsuhide Ito,
C. Lombard Bohas,
Edward M. Wolin,
Eric Van Cutsem,
Timothy J. Hobday,
Takuji Okusaka,
Jaume Capdevila,
Elisabeth G.E. de Vries,
Paola Tomassetti,
Marianne Pavel,
Sakina Hoosen,
T Haas,
Jeremie Lincy,
David Lebwohl,
Kjell Öberg
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1009290
Subject(s) - everolimus , medicine , neuroendocrine tumors , placebo , hazard ratio , clinical endpoint , adverse effect , gastroenterology , progression free survival , randomized controlled trial , surgery , confidence interval , oncology , chemotherapy , pathology , alternative medicine
Everolimus, an oral inhibitor of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), has shown antitumor activity in patients with advanced pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, in two phase 2 studies. We evaluated the agent in a prospective, randomized, phase 3 study.
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