Everolimus Plus Best Supportive Care vs Placebo Plus Best Supportive Care in the Treatment of Patients With Advanced Neuroendocrine Tumors (GI or Lung Origin)

• Patients with poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma, high-grade neuroendocrine carcinoma, adenocarcinoid, pancreatic islet cell carcinoma, insulinoma,glucagonoma, gastrinoma, goblet cell carcinoid, large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma and small cell carcinoma
• Patients with pancreatic NET or NET of origins other than GI or Lung
• Patients with history of or active symptoms of carcinoid syndrome (e.g. flushing,diarrhea)
• Patients with more than one line of prior chemotherapy
• Prior targeted therapy
• Hepatic locoregional therapy within the last 6 months
• Prior therapy with mTOR inhibitors (e.g. sirolimus, temsirolimus, deforolimus)
• Known intolerance or hypersensitivity to everolimus or other rapamycin analogs (e.g.sirolimus, temsirolimus)
• Known impairment of gastrointestinal (GI) function or GI disease that may significantly alter the absorption of oral everolimus
• Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus as defined by HbA1c >8% despite adequate therapy
• Patients who have any severe and/or uncontrolled medical conditions such as:
• unstable angina pectoris, symptomatic congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction ≤6 months prior to randomization, serious uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmia
• active or uncontrolled severe infection
• liver disease such as cirrhosis, decompensated liver disease, and chronic hepatitis (i.e. quantifiable HBV-DNA and/or positive HbsAg, quantifiable HCV-RNA)
• Chronic treatment with corticosteroids or other immunosuppressive agents
• Known history of HIV seropositivity
• Pregnant or nursing (lactating) women

Other protocol-defined inclusion/exclusion criteria may apply.