Wang Guihua, Chai Qin, Xiao Yajie, Peng Wenying, Teng Miao, Wang Jingyi, Lin Hanqing, Su Xiaofan, Wu Lin
Department of Oncology, Changsha Central Hospital, Changsha, China.
YuceBio Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China.
Front Immunol. 2021 Jan 28;11:607416. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.607416. eCollection 2020.
Immune checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized the treatments of lung cancers, and multiple predictive biomarkers alone or in combination help clinicians with the appropriate therapeutic selections. Recently, chemo-immunotherapy has been recommended for treating advanced non-small cell lung cancers in patients without driver mutations. However, the clinical relevance of predictive biomarkers and the treatment efficacy of chemo-immunotherapy in large cell lung carcinoma (LCLC) remain unclear. Here, we reported a rare case of LCLC with none driver gene mutations and low values of multiple predictive biomarkers. These biomarkers included a low PD-L1 expression of 5-10%, a low tumor mutational burden (TMB) of 2.5 muts/mb, a low CD8(+) tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte density of 147.91 psc/mm². After one-cycle chemotherapy, the patient progressed rapidly and then was switched to pembrolizumab combining paclitaxel plus cisplatin. Interestingly, he achieved a partial response after two cycles of chemo-immunotherapy, showing multiple lymph nodes obviously shrunk on CT scan, and other clinical symptoms were relieved when compared with the baseline findings. After five cycles of chemo-immunotherapy, this advanced patient still benefited and was changed to maintenance immunotherapy monotherapy. This case suggests that chemo-immunotherapy may provide an effective therapeutic option for those LCLC patients with low values of multiple predictive biomarkers, particularly for those who progressed from first-line classical treatments.
免疫检查点抑制剂彻底改变了肺癌的治疗方式,单独或联合使用的多种预测性生物标志物有助于临床医生做出合适的治疗选择。最近,化疗免疫疗法已被推荐用于治疗无驱动基因突变的晚期非小细胞肺癌患者。然而,预测性生物标志物的临床相关性以及化疗免疫疗法在大细胞肺癌(LCLC)中的治疗效果仍不明确。在此,我们报告了一例罕见的LCLC病例,该病例无驱动基因突变且多种预测性生物标志物值较低。这些生物标志物包括低水平的PD-L1表达(5-10%)、低肿瘤突变负荷(TMB)(2.5个突变/兆碱基)、低CD8(+)肿瘤浸润淋巴细胞密度(147.91个细胞/平方毫米)。经过一个周期的化疗后,患者病情迅速进展,随后改用帕博利珠单抗联合紫杉醇加顺铂治疗。有趣的是,在两个周期的化疗免疫治疗后,他实现了部分缓解,CT扫描显示多个淋巴结明显缩小,与基线检查结果相比,其他临床症状也有所缓解。经过五个周期的化疗免疫治疗后,这位晚期患者仍从中受益,并改为维持性免疫治疗单药治疗。该病例表明,化疗免疫疗法可能为那些多种预测性生物标志物值较低的LCLC患者提供一种有效的治疗选择,特别是对于那些从一线经典治疗进展而来的患者。