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ABSTRACT: Background
The prognosis of patients with progressive meningioma after failure of surgery and radiotherapy is poor.Methods
We retrospectively evaluated the safety and efficacy of somatostatin-receptor (SSTR)-targeted radionuclide therapy (177Lu-DOTATATE [n = 16], 90Y-DOTATOC [n = 3], or both [n = 1]) in patients with progressive, treatment-refractory meningiomas (5 World Health Organization [WHO] grade I, 7 WHO grade II, 8 WHO grade III) and in part multifocal disease (17 of 20 patients).Results
SSTR radionuclide treatment (median of 3 treatment cycles, median administered dose/cycle 7400 MBq) led to a disease stabilization in 10 of 20 patients for a median time of 17 months. Stratification according to WHO grade showed a median progression-free survival (PFS) of 32.2 months for grade I tumors, 7.2 for grade II, and 2.1 for grade III. PFS at 6 months was 100% for grade I, 57% for grade II, and 0% for grade III. Median overall survival was 17.2 months in WHO grade III patients and not reached for WHO I and II at a median follow-up of 20 months. In the analysis of single meningioma lesions, maximal and mean standardized uptake values in pretherapeutic 68Ga-DOTATOC/-TATE PET/CT were significantly higher in those lesions with radiographic stability after 6 months. In line with this, high expression of SSTR via immunohistochemistry was associated with PFS >6 months.Conclusions
SSTR-targeted radionuclide treatment has activity in a subset of patients with meningioma. Expression of SSTR via immunohistochemistry or radionuclide uptake might serve as a predictive biomarker for outcome to facilitate individualized treatment optimization in patients with uni- and multifocal meningiomas.
SUBMITTER: Seystahl K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5063513 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seystahl Katharina K Stoecklein Veit V Schüller Ulrich U Rushing Elisabeth E Nicolas Guillaume G Schäfer Niklaus N Ilhan Harun H Pangalu Athina A Weller Michael M Tonn Jörg-Christian JC Sommerauer Michael M Albert Nathalie L NL
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<h4>Background</h4>The prognosis of patients with progressive meningioma after failure of surgery and radiotherapy is poor.<h4>Methods</h4>We retrospectively evaluated the safety and efficacy of somatostatin-receptor (SSTR)-targeted radionuclide therapy (<sup>177</sup>Lu-DOTATATE [n = 16], <sup>90</sup>Y-DOTATOC [n = 3], or both [n = 1]) in patients with progressive, treatment-refractory meningiomas (5 World Health Organization [WHO] grade I, 7 WHO grade II, 8 WHO grade III) and in part multifoc ...[more]