Dataset Information

Toxicity of upfront ¹³¹I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (¹³¹I-MIBG) therapy in newly diagnosed neuroblastoma patients: a retrospective analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

In the treatment of patients with high-risk neuroblastoma, different doses of (131)I-metaiodobenzylguanidine ((131)I-MIBG) are administered at different time points during treatment. Toxicity, mainly haematological (thrombocytopenia), from (131)I-MIBG therapy is known to occur in extensively chemotherapy pretreated neuroblastoma patients. Up to now, acute toxicity from (131)I-MIBG as initial treatment has never been studied in a large cohort. The aim of this retrospective study was to document acute toxicity related to upfront (131)I-MIBG.

Methods

All neuroblastoma patients (stages 1-4 and 4S) treated upfront with (131)I-MIBG at the Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Centre (1992 - 2008) were included in this retrospective analysis. The acute toxicity (during therapy) and short-term toxicity (1st month following therapy) of the first two (131)I-MIBG therapies were studied.

Results

Of 66 patients (34 boys, 32 girls; median age 2.2 years, range 0.1 - 9.4 years), 49 had stage 4 disease, 5 stage 4S, 6 stage 3, 1 stage 2 and 5 stage 1. The median first dose was 441 MBq/kg (range 157 - 804 MBq/kg). The median second dose was 328 MBq/kg (range 113 - 727 MBq/kg). The most frequently observed symptoms were nausea and vomiting (21 %, maximum grade II). The main toxicity was grade IV haematological, occurring only in stage 4 patients, after the first and second (131)I-MIBG therapies: anaemia (5 % and 4 %, respectively), leucocytopenia (3 % and 4 %) and thrombocytopenia (2 % and 4 %). No stem cell rescue was needed.

Conclusion

The main acute toxicity observed was haematological followed by nausea and vomiting. One patient developed posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome during (131)I-MIBG therapy, possibly related to (131)I-MIBG. We consider (131)I-MIBG therapy to be a safe treatment modality.

SUBMITTER: Bleeker G

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3788185 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

ACCESS DATA

Publications

Toxicity of upfront ¹³¹I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (¹³¹I-MIBG) therapy in newly diagnosed neuroblastoma patients: a retrospective analysis.

Bleeker Gitta G Schoot Reineke A RA Caron Huib N HN de Kraker Jan J Hoefnagel Cees A CA van Eck Berthe L BL Tytgat Godelieve A GA

European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 20130807 11

<h4>Purpose</h4>In the treatment of patients with high-risk neuroblastoma, different doses of (131)I-metaiodobenzylguanidine ((131)I-MIBG) are administered at different time points during treatment. Toxicity, mainly haematological (thrombocytopenia), from (131)I-MIBG therapy is known to occur in extensively chemotherapy pretreated neuroblastoma patients. Up to now, acute toxicity from (131)I-MIBG as initial treatment has never been studied in a large cohort. The aim of this retrospective study w ...[more]

PMID: 23921531

Similar Datasets

Project description:BackgroundNeuroblastoma is the most common pediatric extracranial tumor with varied prognoses, but the survival of treated refractory or relapsing patients remains poor.ObjectiveThis analysis presents the outcomes of children with neuroblastoma undergoing MIBG therapy in Poland in 2006-2019.Study designA retrospective cohort of 55 patients with refractory or relapsed neuroblastoma treated with I-131 MIBG in Poland in 2006-2019 was analyzed. The endpoints were overall survival (OS), event-free survival (EFS), cumulative incidence (CI) of second cancers and CI of hypothyroidism. Survival curves were estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method and compared between the cohorts by the log-rank test. Cox modeling was adopted to estimate hazard ratios for OS and EFS, considering factors with P < 0.2.ResultsFifty-five patients with a median age of 78.4 months (range 18-193) with neuroblastoma underwent one or more (4 patients) courses of MIBG I-131 therapy. Fifteen patients were not administered chemotherapy, 3 children received standard-dose chemotherapy, and 37 patients were administered high-dose chemotherapy (HDCT) (busulfan-melphalan in 24 and treosulfan-based in 12 patients). Forty-six patients underwent stem cell transplantation, with autologous (35 patients), haploidentical (6), allogeneic (4), and syngeneic grafts (1). The median time from first MIBG therapy to SCT was 22 days. Children with relapsing tumors had inferior OS compared to those with primary resistant disease (21.2% vs 58.7%, p=0.0045). Survival was better in patients without MYCN gene amplification. MIBG therapy was never curative, except in patients further treated with HDCT with stem cell rescue irrespective of the donor type. 31 patients were referred for immune therapy after MIBG therapy, and the 5-year OS in this group was superior to the untreated children (55.2% vs 32.7%, p=0.003), but the difference in the 5-year EFS was not significant (25.6% vs 32.9%, p=ns). In 3 patients, a second malignancy was diagnosed. In 19.6% of treated children, hypothyroidism was diagnosed within 5 years after MIBG therapy.ConclusionMIBG therapy can be incorporated into the therapeutic strategy of relapsed or resistant neuroblastoma patients as preconditioning with HDCT rather than stand-alone therapy. Follow-up is required due to the incidence of thyroid failure and risk of second cancers.

Dataset Information

Toxicity of upfront ¹³¹I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (¹³¹I-MIBG) therapy in newly diagnosed neuroblastoma patients: a retrospective analysis.

Purpose

Methods

Results

Conclusion

Publications

Toxicity of upfront ¹³¹I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (¹³¹I-MIBG) therapy in newly diagnosed neuroblastoma patients: a retrospective analysis.

Similar Datasets

OmicsDI is part of the ELIXIR infrastructure

Tweets