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ReviewCurrent oncology (Toronto, Ont.)2024

Current Advances in Radioactive Iodine-Refractory Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.

Fabio Volpe, Carmela Nappi, Emilia Zampella, Erica Di Donna, Simone Maurea, Alberto Cuocolo, Michele Klain

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Review in Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Fabio VolpeDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II", 80138 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9980-8522
Carmela NappiDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II", 80138 Naples, Italy.
Emilia ZampellaDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II", 80138 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8787-731X
Erica Di DonnaDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II", 80138 Naples, Italy.
Simone MaureaDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II", 80138 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8269-3765
Alberto CuocoloDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II", 80138 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3431-7658
Michele KlainDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II", 80138 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9505-7306

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundDifferentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) patients have an outstanding overall long-term survival rate, and certain subsets of DTC patients have a very high likelihood of disease recurrence. Radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy is a cornerstone in DTC management, but cancer cells can eventually develop resistance to RAI. Radioactive iodine-refractory DTC (RAIR-DTC) is a condition defined by ATA 2015 guidelines when DTC cannot concentrate RAI ab initio or loses RAI uptake ability after the initial therapy. The RAIR condition implies that RAI cannot reveal new met-astatic foci, so RAIR-DTC metabolic imaging needs new tracers.

conclusionsRAIR-DTC remains a challenging nosological entity. There are still controversies on RAIR-DTC definition and post-RAI therapy evaluation, with post-therapy whole-body scan (PT-WBS) the only validated criterion of response. The recent introduction of multiple diagnostic and therapeutic agents obliges physicians to pursue a multidisciplinary approach aiming to correct drug introduction and timing choice.

Indexed as

Iodine RadioisotopesThyroid NeoplasmsHumansIodine Radioisotopesdifferentiated thyroid cancerradioactive iodinerefractory DTCtheragnosticstherapy

Identifiers

PMID39057158
PMCPMC11276085

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