Background: Nivolumab is a fully human antibody which is routinely used at first therapy for metastatic melanoma. Usually, side effects are immune-related adverse events. We report a case of a man who developed bilateral anterior uveitis and macular serous retinal detachment during nivolumab treatment for metastatic melanoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The anti-Programmed Death receptor 1 (anti-PD-1) antibodies nivolumab and pembrolizumab are new treatments in metastatic melanoma. Immunotherapies are best known to be responsible for thrombotic microangiopathy. However, immune interstitial nephritis has been described in a patient treated by nivolumab and ipilimumab concomitantly, and three cases of granulomatous interstitial nephritis have been reported with ipilimumab monotherapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The occurrence of primary cutaneous B-cell lymphoma at the site of radiation therapy is exceptional. We report herein the case of a primary cutaneous marginal zone lymphoma arising at the site of radiotherapy for breast cancer.
Methods/results: A seventy-year-old woman was diagnosed in 2005 with an invasive ductal carcinoma of the left breast, which was treated with surgery, adjuvant chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.