A 69-Year-Old Woman With Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma

Case Overview:

Initial presentation

• A 69-year-old woman presents with a 2-month history of fatigue, lower back pain and unintentional weight loss
• PMH: DM medically controlled
• PE: flank and lower back discomfort on palpation

Clinical workup

• Chest/abdominal/pelvic CT showed a right-sided 7.9 cm renal mass; paraaortic lymph node involvement
• Percutaneous biopsy confirmed clear cell renal cell carcinoma

Treatment and follow-up

• The patient underwent right total nephrectomy; surgery was well-tolerated
  • Follow-up at 3, 9, 12 months were unremarkable
• At 24 months the patient developed disease with multifocal disease in her lungs; Stage IV
• Labs within normal limits
• ECOG 0; good risk disease by IMDC and MSKCC risk
• She started treatment on pazopanib; well-tolerated, achieved PR
• 2 year later the patient suffered progression of disease; with increasing lung nodules, largest (30 mm)
• Lenvatinib 18 mg PO QD + everolimus 5 mg PO QD was initiated
  • Imaging at week 8 showed a 33% reduction from baseline of the largest lung lesion (20 mm);
  • At week 24 of treatment showed 40% reduction from baseline of largest lung lesion (18 mm); decrease in size of other pulmonary lesions noted
  • At 6 months she continued to have stable disease
  • At 12 months of treatment CT showed 2 new liver nodules