Kensuke Suzuki, Hiroshi Iwai, Keita Utsunomiya, Yumiko Kono, Tadashi Watabe, Yoshiki Kobayashi, Dan Van Bui, Shunsuke Sawada, Yasutaka Yun, Akitoshi Mitani, Kenta Fukui, Haruka Sakai, Hanh Hong Chu, Nguyen Manh Linh, Noboru Tanigawa, Akira Kanda
Patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) usually have good prognosis, while those with advanced disease have poor clinical outcomes. This study aimed to investigate the antitumor effects of combination therapy with lenvatinib and 131 I (CTLI) using three different types of DTC cell lines with different profiling of sodium iodide symporter (NIS) status. The radioiodine accumulation study revealed a significantly increased radioiodine uptake in K1-NIS cells after lenvatinib treatment, while there was almost no uptake in K1 and FTC-133 cells...
August 30, 2022: International Journal of Molecular Sciences