UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have identified a protein, UCHL1, in highly aggressive neuroendocrine carcinomas and neuroblastoma that could potentially be used as a molecular biomarker for diagnosing these cancers and predicting and monitoring responses to therapy.
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency has issued a positive opinion for Cabometyx (cabozantinib) for adult patients with unresectable or metastatic, well differentiated extra-pancreatic and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors who have progressed following at least one prior systemic therapy other than somatostatin analogues.
