Patient And Nurse Experience Of Using Somatostatin Analogues To Treat Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: Results Of The Somatostatin Treatment Experience Trial (STREET).

Those treated with lanreotide reported fewer injection problems and experienced less pre-injection anxiety than those treated with octreotide. SSA choice did not appear to affect patients' HRQoL. Some patients treated with octreotide were unaware of an SSA with the flexibility of self-injection.