Iodine I 131 in Treating Patients With Thyroid Cancer
Head and Neck Cancer
About this trial
This is an interventional basic science trial for Head and Neck Cancer focused on measuring anaplastic thyroid cancer, insular thyroid cancer, thyroid gland medullary carcinoma, recurrent thyroid cancer, stage I follicular thyroid cancer, stage I papillary thyroid cancer, stage II follicular thyroid cancer, stage II papillary thyroid cancer, stage III follicular thyroid cancer, stage III papillary thyroid cancer, stage IVA follicular thyroid cancer, stage IVB follicular thyroid cancer, stage IVC follicular thyroid cancer, stage IVA papillary thyroid cancer, stage IVB papillary thyroid cancer, stage IVC papillary thyroid cancer
Eligibility Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
- Diagnosis of thyroid cancer
- Measurable disease by CT scan or nuclear medicine imaging
- Eligible, by standard of care criteria, for iodine I 131 therapy
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective non-barrier method contraception (e.g., combined or progesterone-only oral contraceptive pill, intrauterine device, depot progesterone, or stable relationship with a partner who has had a vasectomy)
- No other malignancy within the past 5 years except squamous cell or basal cell carcinoma of the skin
- No nonthyroidal conditions known to affect iodine I 131 uptake (e.g., New York Heart Association class III or IV congestive heart failure or renal failure)
- No alcoholism or drug abuse within the past 2 years
- No severe emotional, behavioral, or psychiatric problems that would preclude study compliance (e.g., severe claustrophobia)
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
- No intravenous water-soluble radiographic contrast within the past 4 weeks
- No iodinated contrast agent within the past 3 months
- No concurrent drugs that may affect thyroid or renal function (e.g., renal drugs, lithium, amiodarone, other iodine-containing medication, or corticosteroids)
- No other concurrent investigational drugs
Sites / Locations
- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Experimental
Patient-specific 3D-RD Dosimetry
Applied a patient-specific dosimetry calculation method to the imaging data collected to calculate tumor absorbed doses, using 3D-RD method.