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. 2020 Jul 10;11:381. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2020.00381

Table 3A.

Registry survey: RAI patient and control cohort characteristics by center - young age groups.

Study Center Feasibility study sample, ARNICA Registry, ARNICA Institute of Endocrinology & Metabolism National Tumor-Institute (INCA) Dept. Nuclear Medicine, Institute of Oncology Vojvodina Dept. Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital
City, country Minsk, Belarus Minsk, Belarus Kiev, Ukraine Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Sremska Kamenica, Serbia Coimbra, Portugal
N (% of combined study sample) 202 (2.7%) 1,328 (17.6%) 1,297 (17.1%) 89 (1.2%) 32 (0.4%) 15 (0.2%)
Cohorts RAI patients Controls* RAI patients Controls RAI patients Controls RAI patients Controls RAI patients Controls RAI patients Controls
n (% of RAI patient or control cohort) 102 (1.6%) 100 (9.0%) 909 (14.1%) 419 (37.5%) 1,199 (18.6%) 98 (8.8%) 81 (1.3%) 8 (0.7%) 32 (10.5%) 0 15 (0.2) 0
Current age (years, M ± SD) 30.1 ± 1.9 34.3 ± 5.3 28.5 ± 5.2 36.7 ± 5.9 36.7 ± 5.9 25.6 ± 9.6 31.2 ± 8.9 29.3 ± 6.1 21.5 ± 5.1
Age at first surgery (years, M ± SD) 11.9 ± 3.2 17.6 ± 6.6 13.3 ± 3.3 23.6 ± 9.1 29.6 ± 8.1 26.2 ± 7.6 14.50 ± 3.0 14.5 ± 3.3 15.8 ± 3.9 14.2 ± 2.6
<18 years, n (%) 134 (32%) 190 (15.8%) 134 (32%) 15 (100%)
<40 years, n (%) 416 (99.3%) 1,125 (93.8%) 416 (99.3%)
Age at first RAI (years, M ± SD) 12.8 ± 3.0 14.3 ± 3.4 14.5 ± 3.0 16.9 ± 0.81 15.5 ± 2.0
<18 years, n (%) 17 (53%) 15 (100%)
<40 years, n (%) 15 (47%)
Cumul. I-131 activity (GBq, M ± SD) 11.8 ± 9.5 6.6 ± 3.8 10.4 ± 5.5 10.9 ± 0.2 7.2 ± 8.0
Follow-up duration (years, M ± SD) 17.3 ± 3.2 15.9 ± 3.4 17.4 ± 2.8 13.6 ± 6.2 11.1 ± 8.4 16.2 ± 8.2 13.1 ± 7.4 5.4 ± 4.5
SPM before DTC
Breast cancer, n (%) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other cancers, n (%) 0 0 8 (0.9%) 5 (1.2%) 0 0
SPM after DTC/RAI
Breast cancer, n (%) 1 (0.9%) 0 0 0 0 0
Other cancers, n (%) 3 (0.3%) 1 (0.2%) 0 0

Cumul., cumulative; Dept., department; DTC, differentiated thyroid carcinoma; follic., I = 131, iodine-131; M ± SD, mean + standard deviation; RAI, radioiodine therapy; SPM, second primary malignancy.

*

Controls were patients with DTC who had not received RAI.