Metastatic porocarcinoma achieving complete radiological and clinical response with pembrolizumab.


Journal

BMJ case reports
ISSN: 1757-790X
Titre abrégé: BMJ Case Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101526291

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
05 Sep 2019
Historique:
entrez: 8 9 2019
pubmed: 8 9 2019
medline: 11 2 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

A 67-year-old woman presented in 2012 with a crusty nodule on the left lower limb. Histopathological examination at this time reported a poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Two years later, she underwent lymphadenectomy and radiotherapy due to unilateral inguinal and pelvic sidewall nodal metastases. The following year she required excision of two subcutaneous lesions, reported pathologically to be SCC metastases. Further imaging following cyberknife radiotherapy to new brain metastases demonstrated widespread metastatic visceral disease. Twelve cycles of carboplatin and capecitabine failed to halt disease progression. In February 2017, she commenced pembrolizumab, achieving an excellent response and currently has no clinical or radiological evidence of disease. Given the unusual behaviour of her cancer, a histopathological review was requested. The diagnosis was revised to that of porocarcinoma (PC). This represents the first documented case of PC treated with immunotherapy. As of March 2019, the patient remains free of disease.

Identifiants

pubmed: 31492726
pii: 12/9/e228917
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2018-228917
pmc: PMC6731908
pii:
doi:

Substances chimiques

Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized 0
Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological 0
pembrolizumab DPT0O3T46P

Types de publication

Case Reports Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Informations de copyright

© BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2019. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Competing interests: None declared.

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Auteurs

Karla A Lee (KA)

Department of Twin Research, King's College London, London, UK.
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.

Margherita Cioni (M)

Department of Dermatology, San Martino Policlinic Hospital, Genoa, Italy.

Alistair Robson (A)

LD Path Group, London, UK.
Department of Pathology, Instituto Portugues de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil EPE, Lisboa, Portugal.

Veronique Bataille (V)

Kings College, London, UK.
Dermatology, West Herts NHS Trust, Hemel Hempstead, UK.

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