Metastatic follicular thyroid cancer with a longstanding responsiveness to gemcitabine plus oxaliplatin.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Treatment of advanced follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) is based primarily on indirect evidence obtained with multikinase inhibitors (MKI) in clinical trials in which papillary carcinomas represent the vast majority of cases. However, it should be noted that MKI have a non-negligible toxicity that may decrease the patient's quality of life. Conventional chemotherapy with GEMOX (gemcitabine plus oxaliplatin) is an off-label therapy, which seems to have some effectiveness in advanced differentiated thyroid carcinomas, with a good safety profile, although further studies are needed.

Case report

We report a case of a metastatic FTC, resistant to several lines of therapy. However, with a durable response to GEMOX, the overall survival of our patient appears to have be

SUBMITTER: Dias D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10235920 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature