Salvage therapy with lenalidomide containing regimen for relapsed/refractory Castleman disease: a report of three cases

Xinping Zhou, Juying Wei, Yinjun Lou, Gaixiang Xu, Min Yang, Hui Liu, Liping Mao, Hongyan Tong, Jie Jin

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Front. Med. ›› 2017, Vol. 11 ›› Issue (2) : 287-292. DOI: 10.1007/s11684-017-0510-2
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Salvage therapy with lenalidomide containing regimen for relapsed/refractory Castleman disease: a report of three cases

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Castleman disease (CD) is an uncommon non-clonal lymphoproliferative disorder with unknown etiology. No standard therapy is recommended for relapsed/refractory CD patients, thus requiring development of novel experimental approaches. Our cohort of three adult patients with multicentric CD (MCD) were treated with refractory to traditional chemotherapy lenalidomide-containing regimens (10–25 mg lenalidomide perorally administered on days 1–21 in 28-day cycle) as second- to fourth-line treatment. Partial remission was achieved in first plasma-cell CD patient, who relapsed seven months after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and then failed to respond to four cycles of chemotherapy. Partial remission was obtained in second patient with CD and polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, and skin changes syndrome. Third case showed complete remission with complete disappearance of pleural effusion and ascites and normalization of platelet count. To conclude, encouraging clinical responses were achieved in cohort of three patients with lenalidomide-based regimen, though long-term efficacy remains to be observed. We propose further investigation of therapeutic potential of this drug in treating MCD.

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Castleman disease / lenalidomide

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Xinping Zhou, Juying Wei, Yinjun Lou, Gaixiang Xu, Min Yang, Hui Liu, Liping Mao, Hongyan Tong, Jie Jin. Salvage therapy with lenalidomide containing regimen for relapsed/refractory Castleman disease: a report of three cases. Front. Med., 2017, 11(2): 287‒292 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11684-017-0510-2

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Acknowledgements

We are thankful to Dr. Liang Zou, member of Department of Pathology of the First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University for provision of pathological images.

Compliance with ethics guidelines

Xinping Zhou, Juying Wei, Yinjun Lou, Gaixiang Xu, Min Yang, Hui Liu, Liping Mao, Hongyan Tong, and Jie Jin declare that they have no conflicts of interest. All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with theHelsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (5). Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.

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