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ArticleCase reports in endocrinology2020

Three Cases of Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma Transformation and Leukocytosis during Lenvatinib Treatment.

Hiroyuki Iwasaki, Soji Toda, Daisuke Murayama, Hiroyuki Takahashi

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Article in Case reports in endocrinology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hiroyuki IwasakiDepartment of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9724-8525
Soji TodaDepartment of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2977-4419
Daisuke MurayamaDepartment of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, Japan.
Hiroyuki TakahashiDepartment of Oncology, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, Japan.
Kanagawa Prefectural Hospital Organization · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since 2015, the cancer treatment lenvatinib has been used for patients with advanced radioactive iodine- (RAI-) refractory thyroid differentiated cancer; however, the drug's long-term effects have not been fully investigated. We report three cases in which lenvatinib treatment initially improved the patients' conditions, although they all died approximately 2 months after leukocytosis due to very aggressive disease progression with anaplastic thyroid carcinoma transformation. Serum interleukin-6 (IL-6) was elevated in all three cases, and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) was elevated in two cases. The patients had a similar clinical course, with multiorgan metastasis and aggressive disease progression. Even with advanced cancer, lenvatinib has provided control of the disease. However, as long-term use of lenvatinib grows, it is possible that similar cases will increase, and we report our findings as an alert to other clinicians.

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PMCPMC7669359
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