2025/03/08 by Sue Lyn Tan, Bow Ho, Ting Ting Yew +1 · 1 voice
Medicine · #Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research #Histiocytic Disorders and Treatments #Viral-associated cancers and disorders
paper · pdf · doi:10.1186/s12887-025-05539-2
openalex publication_date 2025/03/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
BACKGROUND: Histiocytic sarcoma as a secondary malignancy following childhood leukemia is extremely uncommon with fewer than 20 cases reported worldwide. They often pose a diagnostic challenge and prognosis is dismal. There is a lack of well-established clinical treatment protocols owing to rarity of disease. Majority were managed with chemotherapy with variable outcomes. CASE PRESENTATION: -mutant histiocytic sarcoma following T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. After poor disease control with salvage chemotherapy, she was treated with MAPK-targeted therapy with dabrafenib and trametinib. She demonstrated excellent response and remained in partial remission with no signs of disease progression 3 years later. CONCLUSIONS: There is yet to be consensus on the optimal management for this neoplasm. Description of our successful clinical experience highlights that investigation for BRAF mutations in histiocytic sarcoma is potentially advantageous. It also adds to the growing evidence that precision medicine may be a promising avenue to target this aggressive tumor and lays the foundation for future research.