[Nivolumab and Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for a Gastric Cancer Patient with Brain Metastasis-A Case Report]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2021 Jul;48(7):963-965.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

The prognosis of patients with brain metastasis is very poor. Very few cases of combined treatment with nivolumab(240 mg/body, day 1, q2w, a programmed cell death-1[PD-1]inhibitor)and gamma knife radiosurgery(GKR)(27 Gy/3 Fr) for gastric cancer patients with brain metastasis have been reported. Here, we discuss the case of a 55-year-old man with HER2-positive poorly differentiated gastric adenocarcinoma with multiple bone and intra-abdominal lymph node metastases. After 25 courses of SOX(oxaliplatin 100 mg/m2, day 1, q3w plus S-1 120 mg/day, day 1-14, po, q3w)plus trastuzumab( 6 mg/kg, q3w)treatment, brain metastasis was detected. Subsequently, combined treatment with GKR and nivolumab(8 courses, anti-PD-1 monotherapy)was initiated. Both intra-abdominal and brain lesions decreased in response to this treatment, showing that combined therapy with nivolumab and GKR could be effective for treating gastric cancer patients with brain metastasis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma* / surgery
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
  • Brain Neoplasms* / drug therapy
  • Brain Neoplasms* / surgery
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Nivolumab / therapeutic use
  • Radiosurgery*
  • Stomach Neoplasms* / drug therapy
  • Stomach Neoplasms* / surgery

Substances

  • Nivolumab