Table 1

Key details of the patients’ diagnosis and treatment

DateDisease stageTreatment
4-Year old girl
August 2013 to 2015
(home country)
  • Diagnosis of retroperitoneal NB, stage 4 (INSS), MYCN amplified

  • First CR

  • Chemotherapy according to HR-NBL1/SIOPEN (rapid COJEC, TVD)

  • HD chemotherapy with busulfan/melphalan and ASCT

  • Two tumor resections in May 2014 and July 2014

  • Local radiotherapy to the lumbar region

  • Immunotherapy with dinutuximab beta and IL-2

January 2017 to November 2017
(home country)
  • First relapse, localized advanced

  • PR

  • Tumor resection

  • Chemotherapy according to the RIST trial, partly with bevacizumab

  • Second HD chemotherapy with thiotepa/cyclophosphamide and ASCT

  • Second radiotherapy

December 2017 to September 2018
  • PR

  • PR followed by PD

  • Immunotherapy with dinutuximab beta in combination with chemotherapy courses from trial NB2004 (N5, N6)

  • Immunotherapy with dinutuximab beta in combination with irinotecan/temozolomide

October 2018 to August 2019
  • PD

  • Second CR in May 2019

Immunotherapy with dinutuximab beta and nivolumab
August 2019 to March 2020
  • Persistent second complete remission (CR)

None
17-Year-old young man
April 2010 to July 2010
  • Diagnosis of left adrenal NB, stage 2 (INSS), MYCN non-amplified

  • First CR

  • Tumor surgery

  • Chemotherapy according to trial NB2004 (2x N5, 2x N6, composition see above)

July 2011 to July 2012
  • First relapse, local

  • PD in July 2012

  • Chemotherapy according to the RIST trial (composition see above)

  • Tumor resection, one course of postsurgical cyclophosphamide

  • Immunotherapy with dinutuximab beta and IL-2

July 2012–October 2012
  • PD

  • Second CR

  • Chemotherapy according to trial NB2004 (2x N8)

  • Tumor resection

February 2014–July 2014
  • Second relapse, local

  • Third complete remission

  • Tumor resection

  • Radiotherapy

  • Systemic therapy declined

June 2018 to May 2019
  • Third relapse, metastatic

  • PR followed by PD

  • Chemotherapy according to trial NB2004 (N5/N6 courses)

  • Tumor resection (nephrectomy and adrenalectomy left)

  • Local radiotherapy

  • mIBG-therapy

June 2019 to ongoing
  • PD

  • PR

  • Immunotherapy with DB and nivolumab

  • ASCT, autologous stem cell transplantation; CR, complete remission; DB, dinutuximab beta; HD, high dose; IL-2, interleukin 2; INSS, International Neuroblastoma Staging System; mIBG, metaiodobenzylguanidine; N5, cisplatin, etoposide, vindesine; N6, vincristine, dacarbacine, ifosfamide, doxorubicin; N8, topotecan, cyclophosphamide, etoposide; NB, neuroblastoma; NB2004, neuroblastoma 2004 protocol (Germany); PD, progressive disease; PR, partial remission; Rapid COJEC, carboplatin, etoposide, cisplatin, cyclophosphamide; RIST, sirolimus, irinotecan, dasatinib, temozolomide; TVD, topotecan, vincristine, doxorubicin.