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Apport des antiangiogéniques et des inhibiteurs de mTOR dans le traitement des tumeurs endocrines digestives

The contribution of antiangiogenic agents and mTOR inhibitors to the treatment of endocrine tumours of the gastro-intestinal tract

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Abstract

The traditional cytotoxic agents are of limited efficacy in the treatment of well-differentiated endocrine carcinomas (WDEC) of the gastrointestinal tract. WDEC seem to have an extraordinary tumor vascularization with high expression of proangiogenic molecules, such as the vascular endothelial growth factor, along with overexpression of certain tyrosine kinase receptors, such as the epidermal growth factor receptor, the insulin growth factor receptor, and their downstream signaling pathway components (PI3K-AKT-mTOR). Then, molecular targeted therapies seem to be attractive in the treatment of WDEC. We present here recent clinical trials with the first two Phase 3 trials (everolimus or sunitinib versus placebo), positive on progression-free survival, in pancreatic WDEC.

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La prise en charge thérapeutique des carcinomes endocrines bien différenciés (CEBD) localement avancés ou métastatiques est complexe, pouvant faire appel à de nombreuses armes thérapeutiques (chimiothérapie, immunothérapie, embolisation hépatique, radiothérapie métabolique, etc.), mais reste malheureusement limitée et palliative. Les CEBD présentent la particularité d’avoir un réseau vasculaire très dense, associé à l’hyperexpression de molécules proangiogéniques dont le vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). Par ailleurs, l’insulin growth factor receptor (IGF1-R) ou la perte d’antioncogène (PTEN ou NF1), impliqués dans le développement des CEBD, activent la voie PI3/AKT/mTOR. L’utilisation des thérapies ciblant l’angiogenèse et la voie mTOR semble donc attractive pour le traitement des CEBD. Cela a été confirmé récemment pour les CEBD pancréatiques avec un doublement de la survie sans progression dans les deux premières études de phase 3 testant l’everolimus ou le sunitinib versus placebo.

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Walter, T., Lombard-Bohas, C. Apport des antiangiogéniques et des inhibiteurs de mTOR dans le traitement des tumeurs endocrines digestives. Oncologie 12, 636–640 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10269-010-1947-y

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