Clinical Research Directory

A Clinical Risk Score to Stratify High-risk PanNETs

Considerable heterogeneity exists in the risk of recurrence after curative resection of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNETs). Current clinicopathological parameters (e.g., grade, TNM stage) have limited capacity for individualized risk stratification. There is an urgent need for a clinically accessible and operationally simple predictive tools to identify high-risk PanNETs for optimizing personalized postoperative treatment and follow-up strategies. This study aims to identify risk factors associated with recurrence of PanNETs and to develop a clinically applicable risk stratification tool based on multi-center cohorts and multi-omics validation for identifying high-risk patients.

Adjuvant Trial in Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors

ADJUPANET is an open label, double arm, multicenter, phase 3 trial that aims to investigate the efficacy of systemic chemotherapy in locally resected aggressive pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. The two arms of patients are the following : i. control arm : active surveillance only, standard of care. ii. experimental arm : adjuvant chemotherapy with 6 cycles of CAPECITABINE-TEMOZOLOMIDE (per os) and active surveillance. Patients enrolled in the experimental arm will receive Capecitabine CAPECITABINE per os 750 mg/m² (twice a day: D1 to D14) D1=D28 and TEMOZOLOMIDE per os 200 mg/m² (once a day: D10 to D14) D1=D28.

Patients With High-grade Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors

* Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (pNET) is a rare form of cancer. Treatment options such as hormonal therapy (octreotide) and targeted therapy (everolimus and sunitinib) may be considered for grade 1 or 2 pNETs; however, cytotoxic chemotherapy is essential in cases with grade 3 pNETs or pNECs. * Cisplatin/etoposide remains the treatment of choice for high-grade pNET/pNEC. Other irinotecan-based therapies, such as FOLFIRI (cisplatin/irinotecan), FOLFOX, and temozolomide ± capecitabine, have been employed; however, a standard of care remains to be established.