Table 3.
Trend of Te in lesions of patients who had undergone multiple cycles of RAI therapy (n = 11)
| Lesion Type | No. of lesions | First cycle | Second cycle | Third cycle | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-therapy | Post-therapy | p value | Pre-therapy | Post-therapy | p value | Pre-therapy | Post-therapy | p value | |||
| Remnant | 4 | Median (hours) | 168.38 | 104.04 | < 0.0001 | 101.4 | 65.8 | 0.8750 | 57.6 | 40.05 | 0.1250 |
| IQR (hours) | 121.15–192 | 96.52–109.48 | 74–118 | 97–123 | 37–69.2 | 31.7–45.1 | |||||
| Node | 16 | Median (hours) | 92.7 | 67.6 | 0.0004 | 63.4 | 47.2 | 0.0182 | 43.4 | 36 | 0.1099 |
| IQR (hours) | 71.9–181.4 | 49.6–94.7 | 41.9–83.2 | 33.9–71.8 | 28.9–60.3 | 29.5–46.03 | |||||
| Lung | 16 | Median (hours) | 57.2 | 38.5 | 0.0004 | 41.7 | 34.3 | 0.5186 | 36.6 | 33.5 | 0.2017 |
| IQR (hours) | 40.8–73.3 | 27.1–49.9 | 29–58.4 | 31.2–43.8 | 27.08–46 | 26.4–40.6 | |||||
| Overall | 36 | Median (hours) | 83.3 | 53.7 | < 0.0001 | 52.4 | 42.3 | 0.0194 | 39.8 | 36.3 | 0.0055 |
| IQR (hours) | 52.2–144.1 | 36.6–90.27 | 37.4–74.5 | 32.6–66.6 | 30.9–54.2 | 29.3–40.2 | |||||
Values in italics (1st and 3rd cycle of lung) are normally distributed and are expressed as mean and 95% CI