Radiation therapy is used in combination with chemotherapy and sometimes surgery. Radiation for these tumors usually is external radiation from outside the body. Studies are evaluating the effectiveness of radiation implanted in the body during surgery. Chemotherapy Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells. These drugs may be taken by pill, or injected in a vein or muscle. Chemotherapy is called a systemic treatment because the drug enters the blood stream, travels through the body and can kill cancer cells throughout the body.
When more than one drug is used, the treatment is called combination chemotherapy. For treating the Ewing's family of tumors, surgery or radiation often is used to remove the local tumor and chemotherapy is used to kill any cancer cells that remain in the body.
A supplement to the treatment options listed above is myeloablative therapy with stem cell support. This usually is reserved for patients who have resistant disease, recurrence of disease or widely disseminated disease. Myeloablative therapy is a very intense regimen of chemotherapy to destroy all cells that divide rapidly. These cells include some blood cells and hair cells, as well as cancer cells. Stem cells are self-renewing cells that create all of the other various types of blood cells.
Stem cell support involves enriching the stem cells to increase the number of these important cells circulating in the blood after the chemotherapy has been given to kill the remaining tumor cells. Treatment for the Ewing's tumors depends on where the cancer is located, how far the cancer has spread, the stage of the disease, and the age and general health of the patient.
For recurrent tumors, treatment depends on where the cancer has recurred, how the cancer was treated before and the specific medical condition of each child. Chemotherapy may be used for children who did not previously receive chemotherapy. Radiation treatment may be given to reduce symptoms. Surgery may be used to remove tumors that have spread to the lungs or other organs. Clinical trials are testing new treatments.
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After a further 6 cycles of pembrolizumab, progress imaging confirmed ongoing response to therapy, with complete resolution of active pulmonary metastases, a reduction in SUV at T12 from 6. Treatment was ceased after a total of 9 cycles and at the most recent review 6 months since the last dose the clinical and radiological response has been sustained.
PD-L1 expression has been evaluated in a variety of sarcomas. The series reported by Raj et al. Kozak et al. Kim et al. Of note, there is evidence across most, but not all, tumour types of a relationship between PD-L1 expression and response rates to immune checkpoint blockade, however a lack of PD-L1 expression does not preclude a response to PD-1 inhibition [ 7 , 17 — 20 ]. Despite the known expression of PD-L1 in sarcoma, the only report of immune checkpoint blockade is a small pilot study by Maki et al.
Another rationale for the possible utility of PD-1 blockade in EWS is the presence of genomic instability [ 12 , 13 ].
Response to PD-1 blockade in colorectal cancer has been correlated with MMR deficiency; however, there are conflicting reports of MMR status and response in gastric cancer [ 8 , 11 , 22 ]. The explanation for the immune therapy response in our patient is unclear. Unfortunately, archival tissue was unavailable and hence we were unable to correlate response with PD-L1 expression or lack of in this case. His clinical course was relatively indolent for metastatic EWS and he had received extensive prior radiotherapy, which may have heightened the immune response.
There is emerging evidence to suggest a role for radiotherapy in enhancing responses to immune therapy through a variety of mechanisms [ 23 , 24 ]. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of response of EWS to immune checkpoint blockade with pembrolizumab.
We suggest that further evaluation of PDdirected therapy in recurrent and metastatic EWS is warranted and await the results of the SARC phase II study investigating efficacy and safety of pembrolizumab in advanced soft tissue and bone sarcomas [ 26 ].
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