Long-term efficacy and safety of fourth-line multikinase inhibitor treatment with lenvatinib in a young papillary thyroid carcinoma patient

Drugs Context. 2017 Jul 26:6:212310. doi: 10.7573/dic.212310. eCollection 2017.

Abstract

Lenvatinib, a multikinase inhibitor, is approved for the treatment of patients with radioiodine-refractory metastatic thyroid cancer on the basis of a Phase III, prospective, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial that showed longer progression-free survival in the drug-treated arm. Here, we report the case of a young papillary thyroid cancer patient, pretreated with three other kinase inhibitors, who achieved a long-term clinical benefit from lenvatinib in the fourth-line setting.

Keywords: RAI refractory; lenvatinib; papillary thyroid carcinoma; poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma; sorafenib; sunitinib.