• Petr A. Nikiforovich
  • Pavel A. Rumiantsev
  • Ilya V. Sleptsov
  • Tatiana V. Ustinova
  • Konstantin Yu Slashchuk
  • Sergey L. Vorobyev
  • Sergey S. Serzhenko
  • Alexandr Yu Abrosimov
  • Anna V. Kudryavtseva
  • Arseny A. Semenov
  • Roman A. Chernikov
  • Andrey P. Polyakov
  • Alexander A. Fedenko
  • Larisa V. Bolotina
  • Anna A. Paychadze
  • Alexandr Y. Trushin
  • Andrey D. Kaprin
  • Galina S. Zakharova

Anaplastic thyroid cancer is one of the most aggressive and fatal human carcinomas. A significant experience in using various kinase inhibitors for anaplastic thyroid cancer therapy has been accumulated worldwide. The most encouraging results were obtained after using a combination of b-Raf and ME K kinase inhibitors (vemurafenib/dabrafenib and trametinib/cobimetinib, respectively) for the treatment of the unresectable BRAFV600E-positive anaplastic thyroid cancer. This drug combination makes it possible to perform surgery followed by chemoradiotherapy and other targeted therapies. Here we report a clinical case of anaplastic thyroid cancer in a 69-year-old woman, who was treated with neoadjuvant targeted therapy. The treatment was carried out on the basis of three medical institutions: The National Medical Research Radiological Centre (Moscow), the N.I. Pirogov Clinic of Advanced Medical Technologies (St. Petersburg) and the Endocrinology Research Center (Moscow). Since there is still no universal protocol for treating ATC patients, and only palliative therapy is used in most cases, we emphasized on diagnostic and treatment errors of this disease. Special attention was paid to the importance of using molecular diagnostics and modern medical imaging technologies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)131-144
Number of pages14
JournalSiberian Journal of Oncology
Volume19
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020

    Scopus subject areas

  • Oncology
  • Cancer Research

    Research areas

  • Anaplastic thyroid cancer, BRAF mutation, Neoadjuvant therapy, Targeted therapy

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