Clinical case of long-term use of durvalumab in the treatment of advanced small-cell lung cancer

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Over the last few decades there was a little progress in the treatment of small cell lung cancer (SCLC). But now the approaches are changing with immune checkpoint inhibitors coming into clinical practice. Using a combination of immunotherapy with the standard chemotherapy in the first line of extensive stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) results in significant overall survival improvement, for the first time the median survival in these patients exceeded one year. Here we present a clinical case of ES-SCLC patient treated with durvalumab, a monoclonal antibody against PD-L1, in combination with etoposide and carboplatin in the CASPIAN clinical trial. In the CASPIAN trial more than 20% of patients treated with durvalumab stay alive more than two years. In the presented case we also reported durable control of the disease, the patient continued to receive durvalumab of more than two years with acceptable tolerability.

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Galina B. Statsenko

Omsk Regional Clinical Oncology Dispensary

Author for correspondence.
Email: galina.stacenko.00@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7123-8639

deputy chief physician

Russian Federation, Omsk

Vyacheslav I. Kurakin

Omsk Regional Clinical Oncology Dispensary

Email: KurakinVI@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6580-9607

Chief of Chemotherapy Department №1

Russian Federation, Omsk

Irina V. Plokhotenko

Omsk Regional Clinical Oncology Dispensary

Email: plokirina@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1257-1586

thoracic oncologist of the polyclinic

Russian Federation, Omsk

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2. Fig. 1. The patient, born 1934. MSCT of the chest cavity with contrast, September 2017 (before the treatment).

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3. Fig. 2. The patient, born 1934. MSCT of the chest cavity with contrast, November 2019 (two years after the beginning of the therapy).

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4. Fig. 3. The patient, born 1934. MSCT of the chest cavity, January 2020 (after the end of durvalumab therapy).

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5. Fig. 4. The patient, born 1934. MSCT of the chest cavity, April 2020 (after 4 courses of PCT using RB scheme).

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