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Review
. 2021 Jul;16(3):375-382.
doi: 10.1016/j.cpet.2021.03.007.

Theranostics in Thyroid Cancer

Friederike Eilsberger  1 , Andreas Pfestroff  2
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Review

Theranostics in Thyroid Cancer

Friederike Eilsberger et al. PET Clin. 2021 Jul.

Abstract

The main targeting structure for theranostics in thyroid cancer is the sodium-iodine symporter (NIS), which has been used in clinical routine for the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid diseases for more than 70 years. Because the different iodine (I) nuclides (123I, 124I, 131I) have the same kinetics, uniquely congruent theranostics are possible in differentiated thyroid cancer. Besides the NIS, there are further possibilities by using expression of somatostatin receptors or the expression of the prostate-specific membrane antigen, for example, in radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer, medullary thyroid cancer, or anaplastic thyroid cancer.

Keywords: I-131; Radioiodine; Sodium-iodine symporter; Thyroid cancer.

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