PRRT
PRRT
Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy (PRRT) is a form of molecular targeted therapy which is performed by using a small peptide (a somatostatin analog similar to octreotide) that is coupled with a radionuclide emitting beta radiation. PRRT is a novel nuclear medicine therapy (the first patients were treated in 1996) for the systemic treatment of metastasized neuroendocrine tumors. These types of tumors include gastroenteropancreatic tumors (socalled GEP-NETs), e.g. arising from the small bowel (often called carcinoid tumors), the pancreas, duodenum or stomach, but also from the large bowel or the lung and many other tissues (socalled diffuse neuroendocrine system). On this website these tumors are referred to as neuroendocrine tumors