Long-Term Tolerability and Efficacy of Carboplatin/Pemetrexed as Maintenance Therapy for a Patient With Lung Adenocarcinoma
Abstract BackgroundIt is widely known that platinum-based doublet chemotherapy (PBC) only can be applied to first-line patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with good performance for 4-6 cycles. However, in this case report the patient has been treated with PBC for 30 cycles and more than three years. Case presentationA 63-year-old Chinese man was diagnosed with stage IVa lung adenocarcinoma, with Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status (PS) of 0. This patient did not respond to pemetrexed alone, but respond to pemetrexed and carboplatin, and once the chemotherapy was interrupted for more than two months, the disease would progressed. Moreover, there was little adverse reactions (AE), so we have treated him with PBC for 30 cycles and the progression-free survival (PFS) will be more than three years.ConclusionsThis is the first time to report PBC as maintenance therapy in patients with NSCLC. We hope that oncologists will notice that some diseases are very aggressive, and maintenance therapy are very important to some patients and may help to get longer overall survival time.