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Novel treatment (new drug/intervention; established drug/procedure in new situation)
Good clinical and radiological response to BRAF inhibitor in patient with metastatic thin melanoma
  1. Keith Ian Quintyne1,
  2. Shirley Baker1,
  3. Fintan Wallis2,
  4. Rajnish Gupta1,3
  1. 1Medical Oncology Department, Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Limerick, Ireland
  2. 2Radiology Department, Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Limerick, Ireland
  3. 3Stokes Research Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
  1. Correspondence to Dr Keith Ian Quintyne, keithi.quintyne{at}hse.ie

Summary

The authors herein report the case of a 32-year-old man with advancing metastatic malignant melanoma, who has progressed through all previous lines of therapy, presenting with ongoing respiratory tract symptoms of exertional shortness of breath and cough. CT restaging confirmed clinical findings of deteriorating pulmonary disease; histological review revealed V600E BRAF mutation. He was started on targeted biological therapy with BRAF inhibitor GSK2118436, and is having a good clinical and radiological response without significant lasting toxicity.

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