• 1. Department of Thyroid & Breast Surgery, Affiliated Suqian Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Suqian, Jiangsu 223800, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of Pathology, Affiliated Suqian Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Suqian, Jiangsu 223800, P. R. China;
  • 3. Department of Imaging Division, Affiliated Suqian Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Suqian, Jiangsu 223800, P. R. China;
  • 4. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Affiliated Suqian Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Suqian, Jiangsu 223800, P. R. China;
  • 5. Department of Oncology, Affiliated Suqian Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Suqian, Jiangsu 223800, P. R. China;
ZHENG Xiangxin, Email: zhengxiangxin_dr@163.com
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Objective  To explore value of multidisciplinary team (MDT) model in diagnosis and treatment of patients with advanced special thyroid cancer who lost chance of operation. Method  Two patients with the advanced special thyroid cancer who lost chance of operation were treated by low dose apatinib (250 mg/d) after the MDT discussion. Results  One medullary thyroid cancer patient with the compressing of the trachea for mediastinal metastatic lymphadenopathy and inability to lie down underwent the multiple surgical treatment, the therapeutic effect was poor. Then low dose apatinib (250 mg/d) was performed, the patient could supine, breathe smoothly, and move freely, whose life quality was obviously improved, the mediastinal lymph nodes reduced and no serious drug toxicity occurred on month 1 after the treatment. One undifferentiated thyroid cancer patient with the lung metastasis, hemoptysis, and tumor invasion resulted in the inability to lie down and having difficulty in breathing, these symptoms still existed and more pleural effusion occurred after the resection of the invaded trachea. Then low dose apatinib (250 mg/d) was performed, the patient could supine, the pleural effusion disappeared, the hemoptysis stopped, the breathing was smooth, and could do some minor housework, no drug toxicity occurred on month 1 after the treatment. Conclusion  After MDT discussion, low dose apatinib in treatment of advanced special thyroid cancer is reliable and safe and has a good short-term effect, which could be used as a new remedy, but long-term effect should be further researched by increasing case samples and a long-term following-up.

Citation: GUAN Xiaoqing, ZHENG Xiangxin, GU Shucheng, YUAN Mu, WU Ji, JIANG Xiaoling, SHI Xiaohong, NIU Lei, ZHENG Zhongfeng, LU Xiyan. Application value of multidisciplinary team in diagnosis and treatment of advance special thyroid cancer. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2018, 25(9): 1115-1120. doi: 10.7507/1007-9424.201806027 Copy

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