Therapeutic potential of sunitinib in the treatment of malignant islet cell tumor / 中华内分泌代谢杂志

ABSTRACT

Malignant islet cell tumor, a rare type of neuroendocrine carcinoma, biologically behaves in an aggressive way and is difficulty to be treated. Sunitinib malate, a novel tyrosine kinase inhibitor, demonstrates a high efficacy in treating malignant islet cell tumor as shown by promising results in recent trials.