Long-Term Safety of Bland Embolization Prior to Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy

Sunday, March 5, 2023

3:00 PM – 3:09 PM

Location: Phoenix Convention Center, 227ABC

Presenting Author(s)

Adam Alayli, B.S.

Medical Student
University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Author/Co-author(s)

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Hoang Ngo, B.S.

Medical Student
University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine
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Elias Salloum, MD

Assistant Member in the Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Radiology
Moffitt Cancer Center
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Altan Ahmed, MD

Assistant Member in the Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Radiology
University of Florida College of Medicine- Shands Hospital
Bela Kis, MD, PhD

Associate Member in the Diagnostic Imaging & Interventional Radiology Program
Moffitt Cancer Center
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Jonathan Strosberg, MD

Professor
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
Ghassan El-Haddad, MD

Associate Member Interventional Radiology, Head of Radionuclide Therapy Program
Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Disclosure(s):

Adam Alayli, B.S.: No financial relationships to disclose

Bela Kis, MD, PhD: Varian Medical Systems: Consultant (Ongoing)

Ghassan El-Haddad, MD: No relevant disclosure to display

Purpose: Evaluate long-term safety of hepatic bland embolization for patients with metastatic neuroendocrine tumors (mNET) who subsequently received Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy (PRRT).

Materials and Methods: Retrospective review of mNET patients who received at least 2 cycles of PRRT with 177Lu-DOTATATE between 4/2018 and 02/2022 with and without prior hepatic bland embolization (TAE). Patients followed for at least 6 months after last PRRT cycle. Most recent clinical, imaging and laboratory findings including hepatic CTCAE v5.0 were compared to pre-PRRT.

Results: 181 patients (103 M, 78 F, mean age=64) with mNET (G1:68, G2:82, G3:14, unknown: 17) of different primary sites (9 foregut, 104 midgut, 9 hindgut, 49 pancreas, 1 lung, 9 unknown) underwent at least 2 cycles of PRRT, 105 of whom were embolization naïve and 76 had prior TAE. Median follow up was 22 months (range: 6-43). Patients with prior TAE had higher liver tumor burden on average (0%: 0, 0-25%: 51, 25-50%: 18, 50%+: 7) than patients without prior TAE (0%: 13, 0-25%: 73, 25-50%: 14, 50%+: 5) (p=0.012). No statistically significant difference seen in long term hepatotoxicity between the two groups. 7 patients in TAE naïve group exhibited long-term G3 hepatotoxicity (bilirubin, AST, ALT, ALP) compared to 9 patients who had prior TAE (bilirubin, AST, ALP) (p=0.226). None of the patients who completed less than 2 cycles of PRRT had G3/G4 hepatotoxicity.

Conclusion: Even though mNET patients who undergo TAE prior to PRRT often have a higher liver tumor burden than their embolization naïve counterparts, these patients have low risk of long-term high-grade hepatotoxicity. Patients with liver dominant metastatic mNET can safely receive PRRT after bland TAE.