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Arch Endocrinol Metab ; 65(2): 242-247, 2021 Nov 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1080888

ABSTRACT

Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma is the rarest tumor of the thyroid gland, representing less than 2% of clinically recognized thyroid cancers. Typically, it has an extremely rapid onset, fatal outcomes in most cases, and a median overall survival of 3 to 10 months despite aggressive multidisciplinary management. The presence of targetable mutations in anaplastic thyroid carcinoma patients is an opportunity for treatment when conventional therapeutics approaches are not effective, a frequent situation in the majority of patients. We present our experience in the management of a patient with unresectable anaplastic thyroid cancer who had a remarkable and rapid response to treatment with dabrafenib and trametinib during the COVID-19 pandemic. After four weeks of dabrafenib 150 mg twice daily plus trametinib 2 mg daily, he showed a dramatic reduction of the cervical mass around 90%. Nearly eight weeks under treatment with dabrafenib plus trametinib, the patient remains with minimal locoregional disease without distant metastases.


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COVID-19 , Thyroid Carcinoma, Anaplastic , Thyroid Neoplasms , Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/therapeutic use , Humans , Imidazoles , Male , Mutation , Oximes , Pandemics , Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf/genetics , Pyridones , Pyrimidinones , SARS-CoV-2 , Thyroid Carcinoma, Anaplastic/drug therapy , Thyroid Carcinoma, Anaplastic/genetics , Thyroid Neoplasms/drug therapy
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