James C Yao, Nicola Fazio, Simron Singh, Roberto Buzzoni, Carlo Carnaghi, Edward Wolin, Jiri Tomasek, Markus Raderer, Harald Lahner, Maurizio Voi, Lida Bubuteishvili Pacaud, Nicolas Rouyrre, Carolin Sachs, Juan W Valle, Gianfranco Delle Fave, Eric Van Cutsem, Margot Tesselaar, Yasuhiro Shimada, Do-Youn Oh, Jonathan Strosberg, Matthew H Kulke, Marianne E Pavel
BACKGROUND: Effective systemic therapies for patients with advanced, progressive neuroendocrine tumours of the lung or gastrointestinal tract are scarce. We aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of everolimus compared with placebo in this patient population. METHODS: In the randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 RADIANT-4 trial, adult patients (aged ≥18 years) with advanced, progressive, well-differentiated, non-functional neuroendocrine tumours of lung or gastrointestinal origin were enrolled from 97 centres in 25 countries worldwide...
March 5, 2016: Lancet