Initial response of renal cell carcinoma to vemurafenib in a patient treated for metastatic melanoma

Auteurs-es

  • Gregory W. Hosier Dalhousie University
  • Matthew T. Roberts University of Ottawa

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https://doi.org/10.5489/cuaj.3652

Résumé

Vemurafenib is a selective inhibitor of overactive BRAF oncogene with a substitution of lysine for glutamic acid at residue 600 (BRAFV600E), a mutation expressed in approximately 50% of all melanomas. We report a case of a patient with metastatic melanoma treated with vemurafenib, who subsequently presented with a biopsy-proven conventional renal cell carcinoma (RCC). We observed an initial complete regression of the mass while on vemurafenib. This was unexpected, given that vemurafenib is a specific inhibitor of BRAFV600E and most RCCs do not harbour this mutation.

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Biographie de l'auteur-e

Gregory W. Hosier, Dalhousie University

Medical student

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Publié-e

2016-09-13

Comment citer

Hosier, G. W., & Roberts, M. T. (2016). Initial response of renal cell carcinoma to vemurafenib in a patient treated for metastatic melanoma. Canadian Urological Association Journal, 10(9-10), E306–8. https://doi.org/10.5489/cuaj.3652

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