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A Rare Case of Metastatic Uveal Melanoma Responding to Immunotherapy
Uveal melanoma (UM) is an intraocular malignancy with poor survival rates due to the propensity for metastatic spread. Although treatment options exist for localized disease, there are fewer definitive guidelines for metastatic UM. Treatment involves a personalized approach that entails patient-spec...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9301674/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35891820 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26146 |
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author | Fadel, Celine A Kanakamedala, Swathi Danak, Shivang U Johnson, Andrew T |
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description | Uveal melanoma (UM) is an intraocular malignancy with poor survival rates due to the propensity for metastatic spread. Although treatment options exist for localized disease, there are fewer definitive guidelines for metastatic UM. Treatment involves a personalized approach that entails patient-specific aspects, including tumor genetics. This case highlights the disease course of a 60-year-old male diagnosed with stage IIB right eye choroidal melanoma. Despite successful therapy for localized UM, he developed widespread metastasis. He received dual immunotherapy and was ultimately maintained on a single-agent regimen. His prognosis has surpassed initial prognosis and survival expectations. This case highlights the use of immunotherapy, both dual and single therapy, to treat this rare malignancy and extend overall survival. |
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spelling | pubmed-93016742022-07-25 A Rare Case of Metastatic Uveal Melanoma Responding to Immunotherapy Fadel, Celine A Kanakamedala, Swathi Danak, Shivang U Johnson, Andrew T Cureus Internal Medicine Uveal melanoma (UM) is an intraocular malignancy with poor survival rates due to the propensity for metastatic spread. Although treatment options exist for localized disease, there are fewer definitive guidelines for metastatic UM. Treatment involves a personalized approach that entails patient-specific aspects, including tumor genetics. This case highlights the disease course of a 60-year-old male diagnosed with stage IIB right eye choroidal melanoma. Despite successful therapy for localized UM, he developed widespread metastasis. He received dual immunotherapy and was ultimately maintained on a single-agent regimen. His prognosis has surpassed initial prognosis and survival expectations. This case highlights the use of immunotherapy, both dual and single therapy, to treat this rare malignancy and extend overall survival. Cureus 2022-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9301674/ /pubmed/35891820 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26146 Text en Copyright © 2022, Fadel et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Fadel, Celine A Kanakamedala, Swathi Danak, Shivang U Johnson, Andrew T A Rare Case of Metastatic Uveal Melanoma Responding to Immunotherapy |
title | A Rare Case of Metastatic Uveal Melanoma Responding to Immunotherapy |
title_full | A Rare Case of Metastatic Uveal Melanoma Responding to Immunotherapy |
title_fullStr | A Rare Case of Metastatic Uveal Melanoma Responding to Immunotherapy |
title_full_unstemmed | A Rare Case of Metastatic Uveal Melanoma Responding to Immunotherapy |
title_short | A Rare Case of Metastatic Uveal Melanoma Responding to Immunotherapy |
title_sort | rare case of metastatic uveal melanoma responding to immunotherapy |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9301674/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35891820 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26146 |
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