Extensive vitiligo associated to response to c-kit inhibitor in metastatic mucosal melanoma

Anticancer Drugs. 2020 Jul;31(6):652-654. doi: 10.1097/CAD.0000000000000906.

Abstract

Mucosal melanoma is rare and accounts for 1.3-1.4% of all melanomas. Kit mutations are found in approximately 15-20% of mucosal melanomas. Immunotherapy with anti cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated protein 4 and antiprogrammed cell death protein 1 have reported low clinical efficacy in this melanoma subtype. Studies with Kit inhibitor Imatinib showed response rates ranging from 20 to 30%. We present the case of a patient with a c-kit mutated metastatic melanoma who developed autoimmune vitiligo during treatment with oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor Masitinib.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Agents / adverse effects*
  • Benzamides
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lymphatic Metastasis
  • Melanoma / drug therapy*
  • Melanoma / pathology
  • Middle Aged
  • Piperidines
  • Prognosis
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-kit / antagonists & inhibitors*
  • Pyridines
  • Thiazoles / adverse effects*
  • Vitiligo / chemically induced
  • Vitiligo / pathology*
  • Vulvar Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Vulvar Neoplasms / secondary

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Benzamides
  • Piperidines
  • Pyridines
  • Thiazoles
  • KIT protein, human
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-kit
  • masitinib