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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 17.
Published in final edited form as: Endocr Relat Cancer. 2011 Sep 20;18(5):595–602. doi: 10.1530/ERC-11-0144

Table 1.

Overview of the patient cohort, follow-up, and tumor markers

Patient Gender Primary tumor Cycles/activity (GBq) ChrAinitial (ng/ml) ChrApost (ng/ml) Change ChrA (%) RECIST Course of follow-up
1 M G-NET 4/4 Y+18 Lu 10 n.e.a.b. −100 CR >27 months; last ChrA 6.3
2 F P-NET 3/12 Y+4 Lu 50 23.1 −53.8 −57 SD within partial remission >13 months; last ChrA 17.6
3 F P-NET 3/12.5 Y+4 Lu 3069 302 −90.16 −50.69 PD (bone) after 12 months (ChrA 202.8); SAx; PD (liver) after 18 months; last ChrA 4158; CTx
4 F P-NET 2/8 Y+8 Lu 120 48.2 −59.83 −50 SD within partial remission >13 months; last ChrA 97.4
5 M P-NET 3/12 Y+12 Lu 33 15.9 −51.82 −48.56 SD within partial remission >25 months; last ChrA 18.5
6 F P-NET 4/22 Y+12 Lu 131 24.5 −81.3 −43.98 Further PR for 23 months; re-evaluation: downstaged to surgery; last ChrA <5
7 F P-NET 5/18 Y+14 Lu 133.9 13.3 −90.07 −42.81 SD within partial remission >25 months; last ChrA 17.9
8 F P-NET 4/16 Y+16 Lu 41.5 38.2 −7.95 −40.07 SD within partial remission >26 months; last ChrA 41.7
9 F P-NET 3/4 Y+24 Lu 86.8 32.1 −63.02 −35 SD within partial remission >22 months under SAx; last ChrA 64.7
10 M CUP-NET 2/14 Y+2 Lu 171.5 64.5 −62.39 −24.29 SD >15 months last ChrA 50.2
11 F Jejunum 2/8 Y+8 Lu 45.4 45.7 0.66 −5.33 SD >18; SIRT due to recurrent diarrhea; SD > 5 months; last ChrA 25.1
12 M Jejunum 2/6 Y+6.4 Lu 330 385 16.67 −4.55 SD >19; last ChrA 221.5
13 M Jejunum 2/6 Y+4 Lu 1100 429 −61 0 SD >13; last ChrA 130.8; SAx
14 F G-NET 4/16 Y+13 Lu 902 1462 62.08 3.43 PD (bone) after 11 months; ChrA 2651; CTx; death after 5 months
15 M Illeocoecal 3/12 Y+10.4 Lu 95.9 102 6.36 7.7 PD (liver) after 12 months; 3 additional cycles i.a. DOTA- TOC; PD (liver) after >6 months; last ChrA 370.7

Cycles, number of treatments; activity, cumulative prescribed activity; Y, Yttrium-90; Lu, Lutetium-177; ChrA, chromogranin A; M, male; F, female; P-NET, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor; G-NET, gastric neuroendocrine tumor; CUP-NET, neuroendocrine tumor of unknown primary; PD, progressive disease; SD, stable disease; SAx, treatment with somatostatin analogues; CTx, chemotherapy; SIRT, radioembolization; n.e.a.b., not elevated at baseline.