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Date:5/27/2009

onths vs. 5.9 months) and reduced the risk of disease progression by 67% (hazard ratio=0.33 with 95% confidence interval 0.19 to 0.55; P=0.000017)(1).

This important benefit was seen in patients with functioning tumors (i.e., tumors that are associated with carcinoid syndrome due to the secretion of various hormones that cause symptoms, such as diarrhea or flushing) and non-functioning (non-secreting) tumors. In an analysis of patients with non-functioning tumors, which affect the majority of people with NET, time to tumor progression for patients receiving Sandostatin LAR was 27.14 months versus 7.21 months for those on placebo (P=0.0008)(1).

Further, a statistically significant benefit was observed in patients with tumor load less than or equal to 10%, which suggests a potentially important role for treatment in the early stages of the disease. The median time to tumor progression was 27.1 months in the patients receiving Sandostatin LAR versus 7.2 months in the placebo group (P<0.0001)(1).

The trial, called PROMID (Placebo-controlled prospective Randomized study on the antiproliferative efficacy of Octreotide LAR in patients with metastatic neuroendocrine MIDgut tumors), is a Phase IIIb study conducted at 18 sites in Germany to evaluate the antitumor effect of Sandostatin LAR in patients with midgut NET. The study included 85 patients who were treated with either Sandostatin LAR (30 mg/month) or placebo for 18 months, or until tumor progression or death. All patients in the study were treatment-naive, had locally inoperable or metastatic NET with the primary tumor located in the midgut, were without curative therapeutic options and had tumors that were either functioning or non-functioning. Interim results from PROMID were presented at the 2009 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium(1).

Neuroendocrine tumors originate from cells that have roles both in the endocrine
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