Jadallah Rand K, Al Sharie Ahmed H, Alzghoul Saja M, Al-Karaki Jawad M, Amer Mohammad S Bani, Rawashdeh Tariq H, Alshari Osama
Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid 22110, Jordan.
Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid 22110, Jordan.
Radiol Case Rep. 2024 Jul 13;19(9):4049-4054. doi: 10.1016/j.radcr.2024.06.025. eCollection 2024 Sep.
The management of advanced metastasized breast cancer (BC) is a clinically challenging entity with a wide spectrum of novel therapeutics being introduced to the market. Such agents have remodeled BC treatment landscape and prolonged patients' survival. Over the past decade, a growing body of literature has shed lights on CDK4/6 involvement in oncogenesis and the role of its inhibitors in clinical use with palbociclib being the prototype drug. We present a case of a 58-year-old post-menopausal Middle-Eastern woman diagnosed with stage IV HR+/HER2- breast cancer with extensive bone metastasis. The lesions were widely distributed across the axial skeleton including base of the skull, sternum, ribs, left iliac bone, right inferior pubic ramus, cervical, thoracic, and lumbosacral vertebrae. The patient was started on therapeutic doses of letrozole and zoledronic acid in conjunction with adjuvant radiotherapy. A significant partial response was achieved reaching 70% remission followed by sternum disease progression. A decision was made to switch letrozole for tamoxifen which resulted in disease stability. Due to postmenopausal bleeding, tamoxifen was held and letrozole was reintroduced leading to regimen failure and disease advancement. Palbociclib and fulvestrant were started accordingly, yielding a remarkable metabolic response of all bone metastatic lesions (stable disease) after three months of the regimen initiation. The aforementioned stable disease status continued for approximately three years up to this point.
晚期转移性乳腺癌(BC)的管理是一个具有临床挑战性的领域,市场上正在推出各种各样的新型疗法。这些药物重塑了乳腺癌的治疗格局,延长了患者的生存期。在过去十年中,越来越多的文献揭示了细胞周期蛋白依赖性激酶4/6(CDK4/6)参与肿瘤发生及其抑制剂在临床应用中的作用,其中哌柏西利是原型药物。我们报告一例58岁的中东绝经后女性,诊断为IV期激素受体阳性/人表皮生长因子受体2阴性(HR+/HER2-)乳腺癌,伴有广泛骨转移。病变广泛分布于中轴骨骼,包括颅骨底部、胸骨、肋骨、左髂骨、右耻骨下支、颈椎、胸椎和腰骶椎。患者开始接受来曲唑和唑来膦酸的治疗剂量,并结合辅助放疗。取得了显著的部分缓解,缓解率达到70%,随后胸骨疾病进展。决定将来曲唑换为他莫昔芬,结果疾病稳定。由于绝经后出血,停用他莫昔芬并重新引入来曲唑,导致治疗方案失败和疾病进展。因此开始使用哌柏西利和氟维司群,在治疗方案开始三个月后,所有骨转移病灶均产生了显著的代谢反应(疾病稳定)。截至目前,上述疾病稳定状态持续了大约三年。