• Thyroid · Dec 1998

    Case Reports

    Effectiveness of preoperative radioactive iodine (131I) therapy for locally advanced papillary thyroid cancer: a case report.

    • K Shingu, S Kobayashi, S Yokoyama, T Shimizu, Y Kasuga, M Fujimori, K Ito, Y Hama, and J Amano.
    • Department of Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.
    • Thyroid. 1998 Dec 1; 8 (12): 1113-6.

    AbstractWe report here the effectiveness of preoperative radioactive iodine-131 (131I) therapy for locally advanced thyroid cancer. A 57-year-old woman demonstrated a hard neck tumor that markedly invaded the surrounding organs. The cytological diagnosis of the tumor using fine-needle aspiration biopsy was papillary carcinoma. Because curative resection of the tumor appeared difficult at her first visit, 131I therapy was performed prior to surgery and was more useful than expected. After 3 131I treatments, the tumor size was greatly reduced, and the patient underwent a curative operation. Histopathological diagnosis was well differentiated papillary carcinoma, pT4 and pN1b. The postoperative clinical course was uneventful. There have been no definitive reports using 131I as preoperative treatment for inoperable thyroid cancer. We suggest that 131I therapy may also be beneficial as neoadjuvant therapy for locally advanced thyroid carcinoma.

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