Abstract
Abstract INTRODUCTION EGFR-targeted agents can be useful in the treatment of systemic metastatic cancer including that which has spread to the brain. We present the case of a patient with two different EGFR mutations that responded to receptor blockade. CASE REPORT A 38 year old right-handed female presented with a one week history of progressive left-sided weakness and focal seizures. Neuroimaging revealed multiple enhancing brain lesions and a lesion in the left maxillary antrum. Body imaging revealed a right lung mass, hilar and mediastinal nodes and multiple bony lesions. Biopsy of the maxillary antrum lesion showed metastatic poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma, TTF-1 positive, suggesting a lung primary. ALK was not mutated but there was an EGFR mutation (exon 19 deletion). The patient underwent treatment with dexamethasone, levetiracetam, whole brain radiation and afatinib, an oral EGFR-targeted agent. Most of the brain lesions responded completely with only two small residual lesions. Seizures were controlled. There was major partial response from the systemic lesions. Two years later the patient was clinically well but the lung lesion, mediastinal nodes and bony lesions were all enlarging. A new pituitary lesion was identified on brain MRI. A liquid biopsy (blood) revealed a T790M mutation and the patient underwent stereotactic body radiation and EGFR-targeted therapy with osimertinib. All lesions responded to treatment and four years after initial diagnosis the patient is clinically well with stable disease. DISCUSSION Successful treatment of widespread metastatic disease is possible with the use of multiple EGFR-targeted agents in certain patients.
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