Metastatic small cell lung cancer - an aggressive disease: a case report and literature review

In the present case study, we describe a 53-year-old male with an aggressive small cell lung cancer (SCLC) that was diagnosed in January 2019. Our patient was treated as first line of systemic chemotherapy consisting of cisplatin and etoposide followed by mediastinal prophylactic radiotherapy with good response later he received for his metastatic disease (M-SCLC) a rechallenge of systemic chemotherapy consisting of carboplatin, etoposide and dulvalumab with stable disease and after progression his disease he was treated with lurbinectedin and after four cycles he reached a complete radiologic response. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case to be reported of M-SCLC patient treated with prior of two types of platinum combination with immunotherapy and reaching a complete radiologic response.