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ArticleClinical sarcoma research2020

Partial response to erlotinib in a patient with imatinib-refractory sacral chordoma.

Saurav Verma, Surya Prakash Vadlamani, Shamim Ahmed Shamim, Adarsh Barwad, Sameer Rastogi, S T Arun Raj

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Article in Clinical sarcoma research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Saurav VermaDepartment of Medical Oncology, Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Surya Prakash VadlamaniDepartment of Medical Oncology, Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Shamim Ahmed ShamimDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Adarsh BarwadDepartment of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Sameer RastogiSarcoma Medical Oncology Clinic, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. samdoc_mamc@yahoo.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4792-3083
S T Arun RajDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences · INDR. B.R.A. Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundChordoma is a rare, slow growing and locally aggressive mesenchymal neoplasm with uncommon distant metastases. It is a chemo-resistant disease with surgery and radiotherapy being the mainstay in treatment of localized disease. In advanced disease imatinib has a role. We report a case of metastatic sacral chordoma with symptomatic and radiological response to erlotinib post-progression on imatinib. CASE PRESENTATION: A 48-year-old male with a sacral chordoma underwent partial sacrectomy followed by post-operative radiotherapy. Upon recurrence he received palliative radiotherapy to hemipelvis and was offered therapy with imatinib. However, the disease was refractory to imatinib and he was started on treatment with erlotinib-showing a partial response on imaging at two months. He is currently doing well at 13 months since start of erlotinib.

conclusionsAs seen in previously reported cases, erlotinib is a therapeutic option in advanced chordoma, even in imatinib refractory cases and thus warrants exploration of its therapeutic role in prospective clinical trials.

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