Complete Metabolic Response Assessed by FDG PET/CT to Paclitaxel-Ramucirumab in Patients With Metastatic Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer

Clin Nucl Med. 2020 Feb;45(2):127-128. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002882.

Abstract

Paclitaxel-ramucirumab chemotherapy is indicated in second line of metastatic gastroesophageal junction cancer (mGEJC) after progression under platinum-5-FU chemotherapy. Nevertheless, the reported common response after treatment is only partial within series. To date, only 1 case report of negative posttreatment FDG PET/CT was published without baseline examination from RAINBOW trial. We illustrated the interest of FDG PET/CT to evaluate treatment especially paclitaxel-ramucirumab with 2 examples of complete metabolic responses in 2 patients having different HER2 biomarker profiles of mGEJC. As illustrated, FDG PET/CT emerges as a useful approach for therapeutic assessment of targeted drugs in mGEJC.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized / pharmacology*
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized / therapeutic use
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / pharmacology
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
  • Esophageal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Esophageal Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Esophageal Neoplasms / metabolism*
  • Esophageal Neoplasms / pathology
  • Esophagogastric Junction / diagnostic imaging*
  • Female
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Paclitaxel / pharmacology*
  • Paclitaxel / therapeutic use
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography*
  • Ramucirumab

Substances

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
  • Paclitaxel