Cargando…

Pathologic Complete Response After Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation in a Patient with Gastric Neuroendocrine Cancer

Neuroendocrine tumors are about 0.5% of all malignancies. Specifically, for gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies, neuroendocrine tumor incidence is approximately 1%-2% per year. Gastric neuroendocrine neoplasms are rare and consist of various tumor types with differing histomorphology, pathogenesis, a...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Laughlin, Brady, Scott, Aaron, Goyal, Uma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6758975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31565618
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5214
Descripción
Sumario:Neuroendocrine tumors are about 0.5% of all malignancies. Specifically, for gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies, neuroendocrine tumor incidence is approximately 1%-2% per year. Gastric neuroendocrine neoplasms are rare and consist of various tumor types with differing histomorphology, pathogenesis, and biological behavior. Following surgery, post-operative chemotherapy is generally considered the standard of care. Our case report demonstrates the potential benefit of neoadjuvant concurrent chemoradiotherapy prior to surgery for a malignant gastric neuroendocrine tumor. While radiotherapy has been demonstrated to possibly provide a survival benefit in the treatment of GI neuroendocrine tumors, its use in treatment, particularly neoadjuvantly, needs to be further assessed.