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Response to pembrolizumab in a patient with primary lung adenocarcinoma originated from indium lung.

Yasuharu SekineHideo IchimuraSho UedaKeisuke KobayashiTakeshi NawaAtsuko AmataTatsuya ChonanAkiko SakataYoji KomatsuYukio Sato
Published in: BMC pulmonary medicine (2021)
It is important for clinicians to be aware of lung cancer development in indium-exposed workers or in patients with indium lung, as this could have an aggressive behavior. Treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors is an option even in patients with interstitial pneumonia-type indium lung.
Keyphrases
  • case report
  • advanced non small cell lung cancer