Successful Treatment with Alectinib for Choroidal Metastasis in Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase Rearranged Non-small Cell Lung Cancer.
Intern Med
; 56(17): 2317-2320, 2017 Sep 01.
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ABSTRACT
Choroidal metastasis is rare in cancer patients and it may cause visual disturbances that reduce their quality of life. In non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), targeted therapy against actionable driver mutations has gradually replaced radiotherapy as the treatment of choice for choroidal metastasis. Recently, there have been several case reports of choroidal metastasis in patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-rearranged NSCLC. We herein report the case of a 40-year-old Japanese woman diagnosed with choroidal metastasis of an ALK-rearranged NSCLC who received alectinib as the first-line chemotherapy. Alectinib may be the best treatment for choroidal metastasis in patients harboring an ALK translocation because of its favorable side effect profile involving visual disturbances.
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Piperidinas
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Carbazóis
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Neoplasias da Coroide
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Receptores Proteína Tirosina Quinases
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Carcinoma Pulmonar de Células não Pequenas
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Inibidores de Proteínas Quinases
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Neoplasias Pulmonares
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Antineoplásicos
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2017
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