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After four cycles&#44; the patient achieved a partial response in the lung tumor with no further lung toxicity&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0010"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0010" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0010">Discussion</span><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Immunotherapy-related lung toxicity is rare but can be life-threatening&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> The clinical presentation of pneumonitis usually consists of non-specific symptoms&#46; However&#44; it is essential to consider pneumonitis among the differential diagnoses in patients receiving treatment with PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitors&#44; before the respiratory function worsens&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> To correctly diagnose pneumonitis&#44; a bronchoscopy must be performed to rule out other etiologies&#44; such as infection&#46; The main treatment for the irAE of pneumonia is the administration of high doses of corticosteroids &#40;1&#8211;1&#46;5<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mg&#47;kg&#41; with subsequent tapering when symptoms and radiological imaging show improvement&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> Moreover&#44; according to the evidence described in the literature&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4&#44;5</span></a> permanent cessation of immunotherapy is the standard procedure in a patient experiencing a grade 3&#8211;4 irAE&#46; However&#44; clinicians should always consider the potential loss of clinical benefit for patients in these situations&#46; Although the experience described in our patient reflects a single case&#44; other case series have shown that rechallenging with a PD-1 inhibitor could be an option for patients with NSCLC&#44; 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Letter to the Editor
Immunotherapy rechallenge in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer
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, I. Guaschb, E. Carcerenya
a Medical Oncology Service. Catalan Institute of Oncology, Badalona, Spain
b Radiodiagnostic Service, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain
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1</a>B&#41;&#46; The main differential diagnoses were infection&#44; immune-related toxicity&#44; radiation-induced pneumonitis&#44; and disease progression&#46; Thoracic computed tomography &#40;CT&#41; &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0010">Fig&#46; 2</a>A&#41;&#44; bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage &#40;BAL&#41; and bronchoalveolar aspirate &#40;BAS&#41; were performed to ensure the correct diagnosis&#46; Negative bacterial cultures ruled out the possibility of infection and cytology did not show malignant cells&#46; Although late radiation pneumonitis was difficult to exclude&#44; the time elapsed between the end of the radiotherapy treatment and the beginning of the symptoms suggested an immunerelated pneumonitis&#46; Moreover&#44; irradiated lungs are more susceptible to develop pneumonitis when treated with ICI&#46; The patient was diagnosed with a grade 3 immune-related pneumonitis and the PD-1 inhibitor had to be permanently stopped&#44; despite having attained a partial response&#46; 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After four cycles&#44; the patient achieved a partial response in the lung tumor with no further lung toxicity&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0010"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0010" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0010">Discussion</span><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Immunotherapy-related lung toxicity is rare but can be life-threatening&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> The clinical presentation of pneumonitis usually consists of non-specific symptoms&#46; However&#44; it is essential to consider pneumonitis among the differential diagnoses in patients receiving treatment with PD-1 or PD-L1 inhibitors&#44; before the respiratory function worsens&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> To correctly diagnose pneumonitis&#44; a bronchoscopy must be performed to rule out other etiologies&#44; such as infection&#46; The main treatment for the irAE of pneumonia is the administration of high doses of corticosteroids &#40;1&#8211;1&#46;5<span class="elsevierStyleHsp" style=""></span>mg&#47;kg&#41; with subsequent tapering when symptoms and radiological imaging show improvement&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> Moreover&#44; according to the evidence described in the literature&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4&#44;5</span></a> permanent cessation of immunotherapy is the standard procedure in a patient experiencing a grade 3&#8211;4 irAE&#46; However&#44; clinicians should always consider the potential loss of clinical benefit for patients in these situations&#46; Although the experience described in our patient reflects a single case&#44; other case series have shown that rechallenging with a PD-1 inhibitor could be an option for patients with NSCLC&#44; even after discontinuation due to toxicity&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> Currently&#44; a few trials&#44; such as the REPLAY study &#40;<a href="ctgov:NCT03526887">NCT03526887</a>&#41; carried out by the Spanish Lung Cancer Group&#44; are evaluating pembrolizumab in NSCLC that had failed after obtaining benefit from a checkpoint inhibitor&#46; Furthermore&#44; other studies are assessing the risk of recall toxicities when restarting immunotherapy&#46; A study of patients who have been diagnosed with immune-related pneumonitis showed that 25&#37; of these patients experienced a recurrence when rechallenged with PD-1&#47;PD-L1 inhibitor&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> In summary&#44; ICI rechallenge in patients with NSCLC who experienced a grade 3&#8211;4 irAE could be an option&#44; although more evidence is needed&#46;</p></span></span>"
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