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How do you choose the appropriate first line treatment between everolimus, somatostatin analogues, or cytotoxic chemotherapy in patients with good ECOG PS and widely metastatic atypical carcinoid of the lung?

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Medical Oncology · University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

If the patient is not symptomatic from tumor burden, can start with somatostatin analogues and then add everolimus on progression. Cytotoxic chemotherapy for patients who have progressed on everolimus.

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