International Foundation "Arnica," Minsk, Belarus.
Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital, Würzburg, Germany.
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2020 Oct 28;11:567385. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2020.567385. eCollection 2020.
This single-center, observational case-control feasibility study sought to test key elements of a protocol for an eventual long-term international observational case-control study of a larger patient cohort, to evaluate the risk of breast cancer as a second primary malignancy in females with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) given radioiodine therapy (RAI) during childhood or adolescence. Females developing DTC after the Chernobyl accident in Belarus and ≤19 years old at the time of thyroid surgery were enrolled: patients given RAI ( = 111) and controls of similar age not given RAI ( = 90). One case of breast cancer was newly diagnosed among the RAI patients, but none in controls. Patients given RAI significantly less frequently needed 2 surgeries than did controls (23%, 26/111 vs. 39%, 35/90, < 0.05); the main indication for such procedures usually is suspicion of local recurrence. RAI patients appeared to have had more frequent reproductive difficulties than did controls: 78% (87/111) of the former vs. 93% (84/90) of the latter had a history of pregnancy ( < 0.01), and the mean number of pregnancies was 1.5 ± 1.2 in RAI patients vs. 1.9±1.1 in controls ( < 0.05). Most notably, infertility was observed in 23% (26/111) of RAI patients vs. 4% (4/90) of controls ( < 0.01). In conclusion, a international observational case-control study on breast cancer after DTC in patients given RAI vs. not given RAI appears to be feasible. Additional research and everyday clinical attention should be devoted to reproductive function after RAI in young females.
这项单中心观察性病例对照可行性研究旨在测试一项长期国际观察性病例对照研究方案的关键要素,该研究方案针对的是接受放射性碘治疗(RAI)的儿童或青少年分化型甲状腺癌(DTC)女性中作为第二原发性恶性肿瘤的乳腺癌风险。在白俄罗斯切尔诺贝利事故后发生 DTC 且甲状腺手术时年龄≤19 岁的女性入组:接受 RAI 治疗的患者(n=111)和未接受 RAI 治疗的相似年龄的对照组患者(n=90)。RAI 组中新增了 1 例乳腺癌病例,但对照组中没有。接受 RAI 治疗的患者需要进行 2 次手术的比例显著低于对照组(23%,26/111 比 39%,35/90,<0.05);此类手术的主要指征通常是怀疑局部复发。RAI 组患者的生殖困难似乎比对照组更频繁:前者有 78%(87/111)有妊娠史,后者有 93%(84/90)(<0.01),前者的平均妊娠次数为 1.5±1.2,后者为 1.9±1.1(<0.05)。值得注意的是,RAI 组中 23%(26/111)的患者发生了不孕,而对照组中仅 4%(4/90)(<0.01)。总之,接受 RAI 治疗的 DTC 患者与未接受 RAI 治疗的患者之间的乳腺癌国际观察性病例对照研究似乎是可行的。应该对接受 RAI 治疗的年轻女性的生殖功能进行更多的研究和日常临床关注。