Frontiers in Immunology (Oct 2022)

Immune-related arthritis following pelvic radiation therapy in a patient with lung cancer receiving long-term immune checkpoint blocker treatment: Case report

  • Mihaela Aldea,
  • Rakiba Belkhir,
  • Emeline Colomba,
  • Pierre Blanchard,
  • Francois-Xavier Danlos,
  • Angela Botticella,
  • Mario Terlizzi,
  • Eric Deutsch,
  • Eric Deutsch,
  • Cecile Le Péchoux,
  • David Planchard,
  • Jean-Marie Michot,
  • Benjamin Besse,
  • Antonin Levy,
  • Antonin Levy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.920130
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13

Abstract

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Radiotherapy can trigger immune-related out-of-field “abscopal” response. We report a patient with advanced NSCLC (non-small cell lung cancer) receiving long-term anti-PD1 (programmed cell death protein 1) who have developed out-of-field immune-related arthritis following pelvic irradiation.

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