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CASE REPORT article

Front. Oncol.
Sec. Neuro-Oncology and Neurosurgical Oncology
Volume 14 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fonc.2024.1390299

Octreotide plus IBI-318 plus anlotinib in the treatment of multiple neuroendocrine metastases of unknown primary lesions: A case report

Provisionally accepted
Haoyue Qin Haoyue Qin 1Huan Yan Huan Yan 1,2Xing Zhang Xing Zhang 1,2Zhe Huang Zhe Huang 1,2Yangqian Chen Yangqian Chen 1,2Yuda Zhang Yuda Zhang 1,2Siqi Xiang Siqi Xiang 1,2Yongchang Zhang Yongchang Zhang 1,2Nong Yang Nong Yang 1,2Liang Zeng Liang Zeng 1,2*
  • 1 Graduate Collaborative Training Base of Hunan Cancer Hospital, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang, China
  • 2 Lung Cancer and Gastrointestinal Unit, Hunan Cancer Hospital/The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Anhui Province, China

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    The second-line treatment of neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) of unknown primary origin remains uncertain. This report presented a patient who received octreotide plus IBI-318 plus anlotinib as a second-line treatment for multiple metastatic NETs of unknown primary lesions after the failure of octreotide plus everolimus.Case presentation: A 32-year-old male patient presented with elevated CEA (197.83 ng/ml) without specific symptoms. A contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan showed multiple metastatic lymph nodes and multiple low-density nodules in the liver of undetermined nature. A right supraclavicular lymph node biopsy indicated NET, but the primary tumor origin remained unknown. PD-L1 expression was negative in tumor tissue according to immunohistochemistry. Immunofluorescence indicated the CD4 + T cells, CD8 + T cells, and Treg cells were gathered around blood vessels, with only a few infiltrating lymphocytes in the tumor tissue. Treatment with octreotide (30 mg/28 d) plus everolimus (5 mg qd) led to disease progression after three cycles.Treatment was changed to octreotide (30 mg/28 d) plus IBI318 (400 mg/28 d) plus anlotinib (10 mg/1-14 d/q3w), leading to partial remission, which was sustained up to the last follow-up (June 20, 2023), with a PFS of 11 months. The patient experienced no treatment-related adverse reactions.Conclusions: Octreotide plus IBI318 plus anlotinib achieved benefits in a patient with advanced NETs of unknown primary lesions after first-line treatment failure, even though with low PD-L1 expression. This case suggests that combining SSAs, TKIs and PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors could be an alternative second-line treatment for patients with advanced, well-differentiated NETs.

    Keywords: Octreotide, IBI-318, Neuroendocrine Tumors, metastases, Anlotinib

    Received: 23 Feb 2024; Accepted: 04 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Qin, Yan, Zhang, Huang, Chen, Zhang, Xiang, Zhang, Yang and Zeng. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Liang Zeng, Lung Cancer and Gastrointestinal Unit, Hunan Cancer Hospital/The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Anhui Province, China

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