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Promising Immune Treatment of Advanced Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma with Cemiplimab—Real-World Experience in the Global SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is the second most frequent non-melanoma skin cancer. The standard curative treatment is surgical resection, but the treatment of locally advanced and metastatic disease apart from radiotherapy is currently based on cemiplimab. Cemiplimab has demonstrated eff...

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Autores principales: Pabianek, Marta, Lesiak, Aleksandra, Nejc, Dariusz, Kuncman, Łukasz, Narbutt, Joanna, Skibińska, Małgorzata, Ciążyńska, Magdalena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9600858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36290893
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/curroncol29100616
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Sumario:Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is the second most frequent non-melanoma skin cancer. The standard curative treatment is surgical resection, but the treatment of locally advanced and metastatic disease apart from radiotherapy is currently based on cemiplimab. Cemiplimab has demonstrated efficacy in the treatment of advanced and metastatic cSCC in clinical trials, although real-world data are still limited. We present four cases of cSCC, which showed a tremendous response to cemiplimab—one patient achieved complete response and three of them achieved partial response. Immunotherapy with cemiplimab, a recently approved PD1 inhibitor, is an important addition to the cutaneous oncology therapeutic options that may be considered in patients with advanced disease not amenable to surgery or radiotherapy. In all four cases, the patients postponed visits to the doctor because of the fear of SARS-CoV-2 infection or for administrative and organizational reasons declared difficult access to doctors caused by the pandemic.