A case report of cervical cancer treated with a checkpoint inhibitor in a real-world clinical setting

The treatment standard for stage IVB cervical cancer is palliative drug therapy combined with cytoreductive surgery used in the presence of resectable lesions. Anticancer therapy is based on two-component regimens that include platinum agents and taxanes. The virus-associated aetiology and pathogenesis of cervical cancer is a predictor of high efficacy of immunotherapy, which made the FDA approve an anti-PD1 agent for use in the treatment of these patients in 2018. The paper presents literature data on the treatment methods for advanced cervical cancer and a case report of indolent disease that was treated with all currently available therapeutic options, including checkpoint inhibitors.