Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor With Humoral Hypercalcemia and High Tumor PD-L1 Score

Mehmet Sitki Copur, Luciano Vargas, Whitney Wedel, Shaheed Merani, Allison Cushman-Vokoun, Angela Drincic

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Abstract

Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are a heterogeneous group of neoplasms. They can be functioning tumors with secretion of a variety of peptide hormones, or nonfunctioning tumors with metastases to the liver at the time of diagnosis. Well-differentiated tumors tend to be slow-growing and characterized by low tumor mutational burden (TMB) and lower propensity to express PD-L1. Hypercalcemia due to malignancy can occur in about 20% to 30% of patients with cancer. The secretion of parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTH-rP) is among the causes of malignant hypercalcemia and has seldom been associated with hypercalcemia of NETs. Although the therapeutic landscape for neuroendocrine neoplasms has evolved substantially over the past decade, the role of immunotherapy has not yet been completely explored in this group of patients. We present a rare case of a metastatic pancreatic NET with high TMB, high PD-L1 tumor proportion score, and high PTH-rP related hypercalcemia.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)548-552
Number of pages5
JournalOncology (Williston Park, N.Y.)
Volume34
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 7 2020

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Oncology
  • Cancer Research

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