Abstract:
Objective: To investigate the short-term efficacy and influencing factors of
131I treatment for medium to low risk classification papillary carcinoma of the thyroid(PTC) patients with postoperative pathological cervical lymph node metastasis.
Methods: The data of 111 cases of postoperative pathological cervical lymph node metastasis with medium to low risk classification PTC treated with
131I were analyzed.They were divided into excellent response (ER) group and non-excellent response (NER) group according to therapeutic effect.Two sets of clinical characteristic data were analyzed,the influencing factors of short-term efficacy after
131I treatment were evaluated using multivariate logistic regression,and the value of receiver operating characteristic(ROC) curve was evaluated in predicting efficacy of ps-Tg.
Results: There were 81 cases in the ER group,accounting for 73.0%,and 30 cases in the NER group,accounting for 27.0%.Compared with the ER group,the maximum tumor diameter,the number of metastatic lymph nodes,the ratio of metastatic lymph nodes and ps-Tg were higher in the NER patients,and the differences were statistically significant (
P<0.05 to
P<0.01).Logistic regression analysis showed that the increase of ps-Tg value might be an independent risk factor for NER (
OR=1.108,95%
CI:1.046-1.174,
P<0.01).ROC curve analysis showed that ps-Tg level could be used to predict short-term efficacy after
131I treatment,with a cut-off value of 15.41 ng/mL,sensitivity of 83.3% and specificity of 76.5%.
Conclusions: The short-term effect of
131I treatment on medium to low risk classification PTC patients with postoperative pathological cervical lymph node metastasis is related to the maximum diameter of the tumor,the number of metastatic lymph nodes,ps-Tg,and the ratio of metastatic lymph nodes.The independent influencing factor for predicting the short-term effect of
131I treatment is ps-Tg.Seventy-three percent of patients can achieve ER after
131I treatment,while patients with ps-Tg>15.41 ng/mL have poorer treatment efficacy.