Solve exciting clinical cases specific to your field of interest via Docplexus’ clinical case challenge. In this ‘Oncology Case Challenge’ , join your fellow doctors to discuss and answer today’s question regarding ‘Yellow Plaque in a Patient Taking Pembrolizumab’. A woman in her 70s presented with a new 4-cm left upper lobe lung mass with hilar lymphadenopathy.
Biopsy results demonstrated a squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the lung, and chemoradiotherapy with carboplatin and paclitaxel for stage 3A disease was initiated. Allergic reaction prompted a change to cisplatin-etoposide , which continued as adjuvant chemotherapy after the radiation was complete. At first restaging, a recurrence of disease in the lung was detected, which was treated with cisplatin and gemcitabine for 4 months before she enrolled in a clinical trial in which she received combination therapy with pembrolizumab 2…