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Acute Myeloid Leukemia after Low-Dose Radioiodine Therapy for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

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submitted on 2024-02-27, 08:12 and posted on 2024-02-27, 08:12 authored by Arwa Alsaud, Shehab Mohamed, Mohamed A. Yassin, Amr Ashour, Khaldun Obeidat, Bahjat Azrieh

Papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common primary thyroid cancer. Most frequently treated with surgical resection, some cases require radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy. Studies have suggested that there is an increase in second primary malignancy after RAI therapy amongst thyroid cancer survivors including acute myeloid leukemia (AML) as an infrequent cancer related to RAI therapy; it has a higher relative risk ratio in patients on higher doses of radiation exposure. We would like to report a 30-year-old lady who was diagnosed with papillary thyroid carcinoma. She underwent total thyroidectomy and received a low-dose RAI 131I therapy at a dose of 150 mCi, after which she developed therapy-related AML. Here we would like to highlight the association of AML with low-dose RAI as an infrequent cause of a second primary tumor compared to high doses.

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Published in: Case Reports in Oncology
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
See article on publisher's website: https://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000505686

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Open Access funding provided by the Qatar National Library.

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  • English

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Karger

Publication Year

  • 2020

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This Item is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

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  • Hamad Medical Corporation

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