Cancer immunotherapy-associated hypophysitis.

Castillero F., Castillo-Fernández O., Jiménez-Jiménez G., Fallas-Ramírez J., Peralta-Álvarez MP., Arrieta O.

The advances in cancer therapy have included the development of drugs that inhibit immune checkpoint ligands. Two types of immune checkpoint inhibitors, both antibodies that target CTLA-4 and PD-1, have been approved for its use in NSCLC and melanoma as first-line or second-line therapy. Sadly, not desirable consequences of immunotherapy are immune-related adverse events. immune-related hypophysitis is the most common endocrine adverse event after thyroid disfunction. The particularity of endocrine immune-related adverse events is their non-reversibility, with incidence and prevalence destined to increase in the coming years, particularly if this form of therapy is used in the future for earlier stages of cancer. Therefore, hypophysitis represents a challenge for the physician, sometimes occurring without specific symptomatology and which should be considered for clinical management. In this review, we describe the current data regarding the pathophysiology and management for immune-related hypophysitis.

DOI

10.2217/fon-2019-0101

Type

Journal article

Publication Date

2019-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

Volume

15

Pages

3159 - 3169

Total pages

10

Keywords

CTLA-4, PD-1, hypophysitis, immune-related adverse events, immunotherapy, Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological, Biomarkers, Tumor, CTLA-4 Antigen, Diagnosis, Differential, Diagnostic Imaging, Humans, Hypophysitis, Immunotherapy, Neoplasms, Phenotype

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