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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2024

Toripalimab plus cetuximab combined with radiotherapy in a locally advanced platinum-based chemotherapy-insensitive nasopharyngeal carcinoma patient: a case report.

Ying Piao, Yao Yang, Shihai Wu, Ling Han

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 authors.

Ying PiaoDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Shenzhen People's Hospital (The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University, The First Affiliated Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology), Shenzhen, China.
Yao YangDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Shenzhen People's Hospital (The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University, The First Affiliated Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology), Shenzhen, China.
Shihai WuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Shenzhen People's Hospital (The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University, The First Affiliated Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology), Shenzhen, China.
Ling HanDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Shenzhen People's Hospital (The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University, The First Affiliated Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology), Shenzhen, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is an epithelial malignancy that primarily occurs in East and Southeast Asia, and it is associated with relatively poor overall survival (OS). Currently, there is no reliably effective standard treatment for NPC that progresses after first-line therapy with platinum-based chemotherapy. Case report: A 55-year-old woman diagnosed with stage IVa NPC received two cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy but encountered an increase in the size of cervical lymph nodes and suffered from adverse events. The patient was then switched to toripalimab plus cetuximab combined with radical radiotherapy and had a complete clinical response within 2 months following the completion of radiotherapy without severe treatment-related adverse events. Conclusion: This case report showed that toripalimab plus cetuximab combined with radiotherapy for the treatment of patients with locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma may result in a fast and durable response with a manageable safety profile.

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cetuximabnasopharyngeal carcinomaplatinum-insensitiveradiotherapytoripalimab

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PMID38800412
PMCPMC11127563

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