Tebentafusp in the treatment of metastatic uveal melanoma – the first patient treated in the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.48095/ccko2024134" target="_blank" >10.48095/ccko2024134</a>

Result language

čeština

Original language name

Tebentafusp in the treatment of metastatic uveal melanoma – the first patient treated in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Background: Uveal melanoma is a rare cancer, in which metastases occur in approximately one half of cases. In metastatic disease, the prognosis is unfavorable and the median of survival does not exceed 6 months. Effective treatment options were very limited up to date. Tebentafusp is a bispecific fusion protein, which as the first drug proved efficacy in uveal melanoma. Case: The patient was referred for suspected uveal melanoma of the left eye. She was treated for Hodgkin’s disease in the past. Primarily, the tumor was treated by radiosurgery with radiotherapy of a small lesion of the vertebral body. However, later the patient had to undergo bulbus enucleation with confirmation of a large tumor category pT4b. PET/CT revealed metastases of the bones and the liver; simultaneously, haplotype A*02:01 was confirmed. The patient underwent radiotherapy of the sternum and later, after confirmation of payment from the health insurance company, she started treatment with tebentafusp. The first three doses were administered during admission to the hospital, with a need to treat cytokine release syndrome by corticosteroids. Later, the administration was performed in an out-patient regimen, without complications, except for a transient elevation of transaminases. The first CT restaging confirmed stable disease; however, the second restaging confirmed a new osteolytic lesion in the processus of Th11. Because of progression, the treatment with tebentafusp was withdrawn after 6 months. Unfortunately, the lesion could not be treated by radiotherapy. Two months later, the patient was urgently admitted to the hospital because of right-sided hemiplegia; MRI revealed bleeding metastatic lesion in the brain stem. Conclusion: In this case report, we present the case of the first patient treated with this drug in the Czech Republic.

Czech name

Tebentafusp in the treatment of metastatic uveal melanoma – the first patient treated in the Czech Republic

Czech description

Background: Uveal melanoma is a rare cancer, in which metastases occur in approximately one half of cases. In metastatic disease, the prognosis is unfavorable and the median of survival does not exceed 6 months. Effective treatment options were very limited up to date. Tebentafusp is a bispecific fusion protein, which as the first drug proved efficacy in uveal melanoma. Case: The patient was referred for suspected uveal melanoma of the left eye. She was treated for Hodgkin’s disease in the past. Primarily, the tumor was treated by radiosurgery with radiotherapy of a small lesion of the vertebral body. However, later the patient had to undergo bulbus enucleation with confirmation of a large tumor category pT4b. PET/CT revealed metastases of the bones and the liver; simultaneously, haplotype A*02:01 was confirmed. The patient underwent radiotherapy of the sternum and later, after confirmation of payment from the health insurance company, she started treatment with tebentafusp. The first three doses were administered during admission to the hospital, with a need to treat cytokine release syndrome by corticosteroids. Later, the administration was performed in an out-patient regimen, without complications, except for a transient elevation of transaminases. The first CT restaging confirmed stable disease; however, the second restaging confirmed a new osteolytic lesion in the processus of Th11. Because of progression, the treatment with tebentafusp was withdrawn after 6 months. Unfortunately, the lesion could not be treated by radiotherapy. Two months later, the patient was urgently admitted to the hospital because of right-sided hemiplegia; MRI revealed bleeding metastatic lesion in the brain stem. Conclusion: In this case report, we present the case of the first patient treated with this drug in the Czech Republic.

Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30204 - Oncology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Klinicka Onkologie

ISSN

0862-495X

e-ISSN

1802-5307

Volume of the periodical

38

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

134-138

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85192039268