Liang Chaofeng, Gong Jin, Zhang Baoyu, Meng Zhan'ao, Li Manting, Guo Ying
Department of Neurosurgery, 3rd Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Department of Radiology, 3rd Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Ann Transl Med. 2021 Oct;9(20):1604. doi: 10.21037/atm-21-4395.
Diffuse midline glioma (DMG) is one of fatal glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) with no proven medical therapies. Tumor treating fields (TTFields) is a new revolutionary therapy for GBM which prolongs the overall survival time obviously. However, we can observe more tumor growth phenomena (such as distant multiple metastases) than before. This report describes an adult patient who presented headache and dizziness, accompanied by left limb weakness, nausea, and vomiting following car accident trauma, following imaging examinations suggested thalamus GBM. He was treated with subtotal excision. Final pathology was diagnosed as DMG with H3F3A mutation, isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) wild type. Following concurrent chemoradiation therapy (CCRT) and adjuvant temozolomide (TMZ) chemotherapy + TTFields therapy were carried out. Supratentorial tumor has been exhibited a partial radiological response for nine months until TTFields was used irregularly or even discontinued in the later stage. Especially, subtentorial and spinal multiple metastasis occurred during this time. Both supratentorial and subtentorial tumors were treated with surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, even targeted drugs, with the only difference being TTFields, but we could see different consequences for tumor growth. One conclusion might be drawn that TTFields can provide a longer survival time (14 8 months reported before) for DMG patients and improve survival benefits. However, we can observe that patients maybe die from subtentorial metastasis because TTFields could not cover the subtentorial tumors, which is the focal challenge at present. So further research on subtentorial tumors with TTFields is urgently needed.
弥漫性中线胶质瘤(DMG)是一种致命的多形性胶质母细胞瘤(GBM),目前尚无经证实有效的医学治疗方法。肿瘤治疗电场(TTFields)是一种用于GBM的新型革命性疗法,可显著延长总生存时间。然而,我们观察到肿瘤生长现象(如远处多发转移)比以前更多。本报告描述了一名成年患者,在车祸受伤后出现头痛、头晕,伴有左下肢无力、恶心和呕吐,影像学检查提示丘脑GBM。他接受了次全切除治疗。最终病理诊断为具有H3F3A突变、异柠檬酸脱氢酶(IDH)野生型的DMG。随后进行了同步放化疗(CCRT)以及辅助替莫唑胺(TMZ)化疗 + TTFields治疗。幕上肿瘤在九个月内呈现出部分放射学缓解,直到后期TTFields使用不规律甚至中断。特别是在此期间发生了幕下和脊髓多发转移。幕上和幕下肿瘤均接受了手术、放疗、化疗甚至靶向药物治疗,唯一的区别在于TTFields,但我们可以看到肿瘤生长出现了不同的结果。可以得出一个结论,TTFields可以为DMG患者提供更长的生存时间(之前报道为14.8个月)并提高生存获益。然而,我们可以观察到患者可能死于幕下转移,因为TTFields无法覆盖幕下肿瘤,这是目前的重点挑战。因此,迫切需要对TTFields治疗幕下肿瘤进行进一步研究。
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