Response of renal cell carcinoma to ibrutinib, a bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor, in a patient treated for chronic lymphocytic leukemia

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  • Gregory W. Hosier Department of Urology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
  • Naji J. Touma Department of Urology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada

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https://doi.org/10.5489/cuaj.4316

Résumé

Ibrutinib is a bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor approved for B cell malignancies. Although there are currently two clinical trials evaluating ibrutinib in combination with nivolumab (programmed cell death protein 1, PD-1, inhibitor) or everolimus (mammalian target of rapamycin, mTOR, inhibitor) for metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC), there are no reports of RCC (metastatic or non-metastatic) showing response to a BTK inhibitor in humans. Here we report a 22-month clinical response of biopsy-proven RCC to ibrutinib. This is unexpected, given that BTK is not wellimplicated in RCC pathophysiology. We explore a possible mechanism for the response of RCC to ibrutinib through inhibition of interleukin-2-inducible T-cell kinase (ITK) leading to enhanced antitumour immune responses.

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Biographie de l'auteur-e

Gregory W. Hosier, Department of Urology, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada

Urology Resident

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2017-05-09

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Hosier, G. W., & Touma, N. J. (2017). Response of renal cell carcinoma to ibrutinib, a bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor, in a patient treated for chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Canadian Urological Association Journal, 11(5), E237–9. https://doi.org/10.5489/cuaj.4316

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