Treatment of disseminated neuroendocrine tumor with octreotide in patient with advanced cachexia and limited compliance — case study

Abstract

Patient age 62 treated for anxiety disorders and other concomitant diseases was diagnosed because of massive weight loss and abdominal pain. Diagnosis resolved as disseminated neuroendocrine neoplasm, originating probably in the intestine. Due to severe cachexia symptomatic treatment was indicated as initial medication, upgrading patients’ overall performance status. Than somatostatin analogue was prescribed. It assured long term stabilization of cancer, even though the treatment was occasionally interrupted by periodic deteriorations in patients’ psychic status.