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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Nucl Med. 2014 Dec 11;56(1):70–75. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.114.148247

TABLE 3.

Extract of Intended Treatment Changes after 68Ga-DOTATATE

Treatment change n %
Switched from CTx to treatment without chemotherapy
  CTx + octreotide → octreotide 6 6.8
  CTx + octreotide → octreotide + surgery 1 1.1
  CTx + octreotide → watch-and-wait 1 1.1
  CTx + octreotide + other → octreotide 2 2.3
  CTx + octreotide + PRRT → octreotide 1 1.1
  CTx + octreotide + PRRT → octreotide + surgery 1 1.1
  CTx + octreotide + PRRT + other → surgery 1 1.1
  CTx + octreotide + PRRT + other → octreotide + surgery 2 2.3
  CTx + octreotide + surgery → octreotide 1 1.1
  CTx + octreotide + surgery → octreotide + surgery 1 1.1
  CTx + octreotide + surgery + PRRT → octreotide + surgery + other 1 1.1
  CTx + octreotide + surgery + PRRT + other → octreotide 1 1.1
  CTx + RTx + surgery → PRRT 1 1.1
  Total 20 22.7
Switched to a chemotherapy-including treatment plan
  Octreotide → CTx + octreotide 1 1.1
  Watch-and-wait → CTx + octreotide + surgery 1 1.1
  Watch-and-wait → CTx + octreotide + surgery + other 1 1.1
  Total 3 3.4
Watch-and-wait changed to other treatment strategies
  Watch-and-wait → octreotide + surgery 2 2.3
  Watch-and-Wait → CTx + octreotide + surgery 1 1.1
  Watch-and-wait → CTx + octreotide + surgery + other 1 1.1
  Watch-and-wait + octreotide → octreotide 1 1.1
  Watch-and-wait + octreotide → octreotide + surgery 1 1.1
  Total 6 6.8
Initial treatment strategy switched to watch-and-wait
  Surgery → watch-and-wait 1 1.1
  Octreotide → watch-and-wait 2 2.3
  Octreotide + surgery + other → watch-and-wait 1 1.1
  CTx + octreotide → watch-and-wait 1 1.1
  Total 5 5.7
Surgery switched to surgery + octreotide or watch-and-wait
  Surgery → octreotide + surgery 2 2.3%
  Surgery → watch-and-wait 1 1.1%
  Total 3 3.4%
Switched from a multimodality approach to surgery alone
  CTx + octreotide + PRRT + other → surgery 1 1.1%
  Total 1 1.1%

CTx = chemotherapy; RTx = radiotherapy.