[Docetaxel and Ramucirumab Combination Chemotherapy after Nivolumab Treatment for Pretreated Pulmonary Squamous Cell Carcinoma-A Successful Case]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2021 Feb;48(2):211-213.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

For immune checkpoint inhibitor(ICI)-pretreated patients, docetaxel and ramucirumab(DTX plus RAM)combination therapy can be more effective than no treatment. Herein, we present the case of a patient who had been treated with ICIs and was thereafter successfully treated with DTX plus RAM. A 62-year-old man with primary pulmonary squamous cell carcinoma( PDL-1 tumor proportion score<1%)at clinical stage ⅠA2(cT1bN0M0)was treated as follows: 1)right upper lobectomy ND2a-2(pT1bN0M0, stage ⅠA2); 2)surgery for a solitary pleural metastasis 20 months later; 3)cisplatin plus vinorelbine for multiple pleural metastases as a first-line treatment 24 months after the initial surgery; and 4)nivolumab as a second-line treatment. However, progressive disease and an adverse event occurred after 5 courses of nivolumab, and DTX plus RAM were introduced as a third-line treatment. A complete response to 12 courses of combination therapy(41 months after surgery/29 months after recurrence)was determined. Unfortunately, the DTX plus RAM regimen had to be withdrawn because the patient developed drug-induced acute pneumonitis. The patient has been in remission since drug discontinuation and is receiving steroid and home-oxygen therapy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
  • Carcinoma, Squamous Cell* / drug therapy
  • Carcinoma, Squamous Cell* / surgery
  • Docetaxel / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Lung Neoplasms* / drug therapy
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local
  • Nivolumab / therapeutic use
  • Ramucirumab

Substances

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
  • Docetaxel
  • Nivolumab