Successful Resection of Cisplatin-Resistant Renal Pelvic Cancer after the Administration of Pembrolizumab as Second-Line Therapy

Autor: Takashi Kawahara, Taku Mochizuki, Rumiko Sugimura, Koji Izumi, Shinnosuke Kuroda, Yasuhide Miyoshi, Noboru Nakaigawa, Masahiro Yao, Mikiko Tanabe, Hiroji Uemura
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Case Reports in Oncology, Vol 12, Iss 2, Pp 548-553 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1662-6575
DOI: 10.1159/000501715
Popis: Pembrolizumab has been used as a second-line systemic therapy for urothelial carcinoma. We herein report a case of cisplatin-resistant renal-pelvic urothelial carcinoma that was successfully resected after pembrolizumab treatment. A 74-year-old woman was referred to our hospital for further examination for gross hematuria and a renal-pelvis tumor. Retrograde pyelography showed a defect lesion in her renal pelvis and urinary cytology of the renal pelvis showed class V. Because staging CT could not deny lung metastasis, we planned to perform nephro-ureterectomy after evaluating the response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. After three courses of gemcitabine and cisplatin chemotherapy, the original site showed progression; thus, nephro-ureterectomy was cancelled. We introduced pembrolizumab as a second-line therapy. After four courses of pembrolizumab treatment, the size of the original lesion was significantly decreased. During these therapies the lung tumor size was unchanged; thus, we determined that the lung tumor was not metastatic and performed nephro-ureterectomy. A pathological examination demonstrated that the tumor was completely resected with a negative surgical margin. We described the first case in which cisplatin-resistant renal pelvic tumor was successfully resected after pembrolizumab treatment.
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