Case Overview:
Initial presentation
- A 69-year-old woman presents with a 2-month history of fatigue, lower back pain and unintentional weight loss
- PMH: DM medically controlled
- PE: flank and lower back discomfort on palpation
Clinical workup
- Chest/abdominal/pelvic CT showed a right-sided 7.9 cm renal mass; paraaortic lymph node involvement
- Percutaneous biopsy confirmed clear cell renal cell carcinoma
Treatment and follow-up
- The patient underwent right total nephrectomy; surgery was well-tolerated
- Follow-up at 3, 9, 12 months were unremarkable
- At 24 months the patient developed disease with multifocal disease in her lungs; Stage IV
- Labs within normal limits
- ECOG 0; good risk disease by IMDC and MSKCC risk
- She started treatment on pazopanib; well-tolerated, achieved PR
- 2 year later the patient suffered progression of disease; with increasing lung nodules, largest (30 mm)
- Lenvatinib 18 mg PO QD + everolimus 5 mg PO QD was initiated
- Imaging at week 8 showed a 33% reduction from baseline of the largest lung lesion (20 mm);
- At week 24 of treatment showed 40% reduction from baseline of largest lung lesion (18 mm); decrease in size of other pulmonary lesions noted
- At 6 months she continued to have stable disease
- At 12 months of treatment CT showed 2 new liver nodules