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When, if ever, do you use capecitabine/temozolomide in metastatic high grade neuroendocrine carcinoma?

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Medical Oncology · Mayo Clinic

CAPTEM has a relatively minimal role in the management of neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC) and is almost exclusively used in later lines of therapy after first-line platinum/etoposide. In general, second-line therapy of NEC is ineffective and a retrospective study of 64 patients receiving various regi...

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