Presentazione a cura della Dottoressa Rosella Pasqualoni e del dottor Gregorio Reda - "TIROIDE 2018 Nuovi approcci diagnostici e terapeutici" - Roma 24/11/2018
2. Il punto di vista del Medico Nucleare
Follow up della neoplasia tiroidea operata
La terapia radiometabolica
3. APPROCCI PERSONALIZZATI
uno spettro di possibilità
dalla … sorveglianza attiva
alla TT + RT
“ ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL”
TT + RT + OT
Evoluzione del paradigma di trattamento del
carcinoma della tiroide
Una grande confusione
!!!
the role of post-operative 131 I
has been reviewed and the
number of patients in whom
treatment was recommended
has been progressively
decreasing over the last
decade.
4. VISION
Precision
Medicine
Nuovo paradigma di cura
the right treatment
for the right patient,
at the right time,
with the right dose
fornendo una terapia più mirata ed efficiente
Selezionare la terapia più appropriata in base a caratteristiche paziente specifiche
VISION
6. ATA 2015 & BTA 2014 EANM & Italian Consensus
Punti di accordo: la terapia con radiodio
1. is not routinely recommended for ATA [very ] low-risk DTC patients
(as identified as very low risk according to the European Consensus Report)
2. There is an “indication for” in high-risk DTC patients.
Recommendation 51 of ATA:
indicazioni per l’uso del radioiodio dopo la TT in pazienti con ca tiroide differenziato - DTC
Punti di disaccordo: la terapia con radiodio nelle categorie intermedie
should be “considered” in “low- to intermediate-risk”
only in the presence of other adverse features
non ci sono indicazioni chiare riguardo l’uso del radioiodio dopo la TT nei
pazienti classificati low - to - intermediate risk
vs.
7. EANM and the EANM Thyroid Committee (2016)
The reasons for declining to endorse these guidelines fall into two categories.
1. In most cases our objections are based on differences in the interpretation of the available
evidence, especially where the role of nuclear medicine is concerned. In spite of solid
evidence on the clinical efficacy of nuclear medicine in both the diagnostic work-up of
nodular thyroid disease and the care of DTC, the 2015 ATA guidelines appear to marginalise
the role of nuclear medicine in the care of DTC.
2. Some of our objections also concern the wording of some parts of the text which differ
from our current viewpoint and are mostly based on a cautious, legally motivated choice
of words.
Pur riconoscendo lo sforzo e il carattere
innovativo delle ATA
tentativo di stratificare il rischio come
un continuum
distinzione del RAI come ablazione
adiuvante e terapia
NE NEGANO FORMALMENTE il
recepimento
8. “…For the entire population of patients with DTC exceeding 1 cm in diameter, there is some evidence of
the usefulness of postoperative 131I ablation. However, we do agree that not all patients who are treated
with 131I will in fact benefit from it, even though we cannot yet reliably identify these patients.
We therefore take this opportunity to warn our colleagues that the currently proposed strategy may not
yet be based on solid evidence. It is not long since esteemed colleagues Mazzaferri and Jhiang showed in
landmark studies that the introduction of postoperative 131I treatment leads to a dramatic decline in both
recurrence and DTC-specific mortality rates.
There are currently no prospective, controlled studies available that precisely indicate which patients
with low-risk DTC may or may not benefit from postoperative 131I therapy.
To that end, two well-regarded trials in the UK and France (IoN and ESTIMABL2) comparing 131I ablation
and no ablation in patients with lower risk DTC are currently recruiting. A long follow-up of at least
10 years will be needed before these studies are able to provide strong, reliable prospective data on
patient outcome...”
Therefore we would advise caution in altering long-established and
successful practice until sufficient evidence is available indicating that
it is safe to omit postoperative 131I treatment – “ablation” or
“adjuvant” – in patients with non-microcarcinoma….”
EANM and the EANM Thyroid Committee (2016)
Motivazioni specifiche
9. Italian consensus on diagnosis and treatment of differentiated thyroid
cancer: joint statements of six Italian societies.
Six scientific Italian societies entitled to cure thyroid cancer patients
felt the need to develop a consensus report based on significant scientific advances
occurred in the field.
(the Italian Thyroid Association, the Medical Endocrinology Association, the Italian
Society of Endocrinology, the Italian Association of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular
Imaging, the Italian Society of Unified Endocrine Surgery and the Italian Society of
Anatomic Pathology and Diagnostic Cytology)
10. Italian consensus on diagnosis and treatment of differentiated thyroid
cancer: joint statements of six Italian societies.
The indication to post-surgical thyroid ablation with radioiodine should be
established both on the basis of :
the AJCC/UICC staging (VIII ed.) useful to predict the risk of mortality
the Initial Risk Stratification System (ATA) useful to predict the risk of
disease recurrence/ persistence
The indication should be based on post-operative disease status evaluation with
stimulated Tg (hypotiroidism or rhTSH) + [ whole body scan]
11. Italian consensus on diagnosis and treatment of differentiated thyroid
cancer: joint statements of six Italian societies.
In patients with ATA low-risk (T1a-b, N0-X, M0-X), RAI remnant ablation is
not generally recommended.
However, consideration of specific features could lead to consider RAI
remnant ablation in individual patients.
In patients with intermediate or low-to-intermediate risk (T1-2, N1a–N1b,
M0-X), RAI remnant ablation should be considered, particularly in patients
with adverse features such as advanced age, larger tumors, macroscopic
or clinically evident lymph nodes or the presence of extranodal extension,
or aggressive histology or vascular invasion.
In patients with high risk or intermediate to high risk (T3-4, any N, any M),
RAI ablation is routinely recommended.
12. The risk of structural disease recurrence associated with selected clinico-pathological
features are shown as a continuum of risk with percentages (ranges, approximate
values) presented to reflect our best estimates based on the published literature.
Intermed
LOW
< 5%
> 20%
5- 20%
RAI agree
13. Ma … Quale è il RISCHIO ACCETTABILE
Per il
paziente
ATTENZIONE
Le stime del rischio ATA sono basate su popolazioni che sono state
trattate con radioiodio
Per il
medico
Per la
società
14. RISCHIO DINAMICO
Il rischio iniziale deve essere completato e aggiornato incorporando la risposta al trattamento
Italian consensus on
diagnosis and treatment
of DTC
ERGO … la vera stratificazione del rischio si ha solo dopo aver valutato la
risposta alla terapia
15. Proposed terminology to classify response to therapy
and clinical implications
RECOMMENDATION 49
ATA 2015
Excellent response:
no clinical, biochemical, or structural
evidence of disease
How should initial risk estimates be modified over time?
Negative imaging and either
Suppressed Tg <0.2 ng/mLbor
TSH-stimulated Tg <1 ng/mLb
1% –4 % recurrencec
<1% disease specific
death
Negative imaging and
Suppressed Tg ≥1 ng/mL or
Stimulated Tg ≥10 ng/mL or
Rising anti-Tg antibody levels
At least 30% spontaneously
evolve to NED;
20% achieve NED after
additional therapy;
20% develop structural disease
<1% disease specific death
Structural or functional
evidence of disease
with any Tg level
with or without anti-Tg
antibodies
50%–85% persistent disease
despite additional therapy.
Disease specific death rates as
high as 11% with loco-regional
metastases and 50% with
structural distant metastases
Nonspecific findings on
imaging and/or basal
thyroglobulin ≥0.2 to <1 ng/ml
or stimulated thyroglobulin ≥1
to <10 ng/ml or stable or
declining thyroglobulin
antibodies over time
15%–20%
will have structural disease
identified during follow-up
Biochemical incomplete response:
abnormal Tg or rising anti-Tg antibody levels
in the absence of localizable disease.
Structural incomplete response: persistent
or newly identified loco-regional or distant
metastases
Indeterminate response: nonspecific
biochemical or structural findings that cannot be
confidently classified as either benign or
malignant. This includes patients with stable or
declining anti-Tg antibody levels without
definitive structural evidence of disease.
La prognosi cambia
significativamente
sulla base della
negatività
dell’imaging post-
terapia
16. This figure describes the follow-up protocol for patients with papillary thyroid cancer who are at a low risk of
recurrence (part a), a low or intermediate risk of recurrence (part b) or a high risk of recurrence (part c). 18F-FDG–PET,
18F-fluorodeoxyglucose–PET; RRA, radioactive iodine remnant ablation.
Follow-up protocols for patients with papillary thyroid cancer Lamartina. Nature Reviews Endocrinology Volume: 14 Issue
9 (2018)
17. ESPERIENZA IFO
• maggiore casistica mondiale
omogenea per trattamento
• migliore sopravvivenza
• minore morbilità
a proposito di
evidenze ….
Misure di outcome
overall survival (morti specifiche)
progression free disease
disease free survival
morbidità (recidive + malattia persistente)
19. il fattore predittivo più significativo di aumentato rischio di mortalità per tumore è la
mancata risposta al trattamento con 131I (hazard ratio = 211 , p < 0,0001)
altre variabili indipendenti predittive di rischio di sono l’età, il sesso e l’istologia follicolare.
Structural incomplete
response: persistent or
newly identified loco-
regional or distant
metastases
50%–85% persistent disease
despite additional therapy.
Disease specific death rates as
high as 11% with loco-regional
metastases and 50% with
structural distant metastases
RISPOSTA alla TERAPIA : valore prognostico
21. Casi clinici
Donna 70 anni; TT 17/09/2015
E.I ca papillare variante follicolare del lobo dx della tiroide di 0,8 cm;
non invasione vascolare. pT1a
VERY LOW RISK
Tg in OT > 70 ng/ml. 10/2015 TB 131I riscontro di metastasi omero dx trattata con osteosintesi
preventiva con chiodo endomidollare pre terapia 131I
Novembre 2015 TRM 131-I (150 mCi) con TSH = 32 uUI/ml, Tg > 4000 ng/ml, Ab anti Tg neg
Scintigrafia di controllo terapia : M1 su omero dx + residuo
M1 - HIGH RISK
22. Casi clinici
CDT 06/2016
Previa ristadiazione con TB131I in ipotiroidismo viene sottoposta ad ulteriori due cicli di
TRM 131I (06/2016 e 06/2017) con pressochè assenza di significativa iperfissazione a
livello omerale dx all’ultimo CDT con valori rispettivamente di TSH = 128 uUI/ml e 194
uUI/ml, Tg = 12,2 e 1,0 ng/ml
CDT
06/2017
23. Casi clinici
06/2018 TB 131I con rh-TSH negativo con valore max di TSH = 367 uUI/ml, Tg < 0,1 ng/ml, AbTg
<10 UI/ml
Risposta eccellente
LOW RISK
24. Casi clinici
Donna 49 anni; TT 03/11/2016 con E.I. ca papillifero variante follicolare dell’istmo di 8.5 mm
che giunge a meno di 1 mm dal margine di resezione; a carico del lobo sinistro nodulo di 1.5
cm sede di ca papillare var follicolare; margini indenni – pT1bm.
TB/SPET gen 2018
01/2017 TB 131I iperfissazione focale regione anteriore del collo + ulteriore focalità regione
latero-cervicale dx di verosimile pertinenza linfonodale confermata alla SPET/TC
TSH = 41 uUI/ml; Tg = 1,7 ng/ml; Ab anti Tg < 10 IU/ml N1 LOW RISK
LOW RISK
25. Casi clinici
In data 16/01/2017 TRM 131-I
TSH = 41 uUI/ml; Tg = 1,7 ng/ml; AbTg < 10 IU/ml
Sorveglianza attiva
O
Terapia ?
Ecografia ogni 6 mesi
Tg dopo stimolo ? N.S.
26. Casi clinici
In data 19/01/2018 TB 131-I con rh-TSH risultato negativo
TSH max = 205 uUI/ml; Tg = < 0,1 ng/ml; AbTg < 10 IU/ml
Risposta eccellente
LOW RISK
27. Casi clinici
TB/CDT gen 2017
Donna, 67 anni; TT 07/06/2010 E.I. Ca papillifero variante follicolare del lobo sx di 1,6 cm.
Capsula tiroidea esente. Non figure di invasione linfovascolare e perineurale. pT1b
01/17 TB con 131I : intensa iperfissazione regione anteriore del collo; TSH = 67,3 uUI/ml, Tg
1023; Ab anti Tg < 15 IU/ml. Segue TRM 131I con comparsa di iperfissazione emitorace sx
(alla SPET/TC lesione IX arco costale sx). TSH = 72,8 uUI/ml; Tg 1161 ng/ml
28. Casi clinici
TB/CDT dic 2017
12/17 TB con 131I: iperfissazione regione anteriore del collo + emitorace sx TSH = 72.8
uUI/ml, Tg 1165; Ab anti Tg < 11 IU/ml. Segue II ciclo di TRM 131I (200 mCi) che ha
evidenziato PD di malattia per comparsa di più lesioni scheletriche di tipo litico alla SPET/TC
TSH =83 uUI/ml; Tg 1428 ng/ml
29. Casi clinici
SPET/CDT dic 2017
01/17 TB con 131I: iperfissazione regione anteriore del collo + emitorace sx TSH = 83 uUI/ml,
Tg 1165; Ab anti Tg < 11 IU/ml. Segue II ciclo di TRM 131I (200 mCi) che ha evidenziato PD di
malattia per comparsa di più lesioni scheletriche di tipo litico alla SPET/TC TSH = 72,8
uUI/ml; Tg 1428 ng/ml
30. Casi clinici
CDT 09/2018
Segue III di TRM 131I (200 mCi) con sostanziale SD di malattia al CDT e Tg 1426 ng/ml
CDT 12/2017
Risposta strutturale incompleta
31. Casi clinici
CDT 10/2018
Uomo, 54 anni; TT con E.I multipli focolai di ca papillifero var follicolare (max lobo dx 1cm e
paraistmo 1.1 cm); focale infiltrazione del tessuto muscolare striato peritiroideo pT3b(m)
UICC 2017
TB 10/2018
10/2018 TB 131I : “alcune immagini di intensa iperfissazione regione ant collo” TSH = 87
uUI/ml, Tg 96.4 ng/ml , Ab anti Tg < 10 UI/ml. Segue TRM 131I (150 mCi)
32. ATA RECOMMENDATION 62 and 63
rhTSH (Thyrogen) in the follow-up of DTC
During initial follow-up, serum Tg on thyroxine therapy should be measured every 6–12
months. More frequent Tg measurements may be appropriate for ATA high-risk patients.
1. In ATA low- and intermediate-risk patients that achieve an excellent response to
therapy, the utility of subsequent Tg testing is not established. The time interval
between serum Tg measurements can be lengthened to at least 12–24 months.
2. In ATA high-risk patients (regardless of response to therapy) and all patients with
biochemical incomplete, structural incomplete, or indeterminate response should
continue to have Tg measured at least every 6–12 months for several years.
3. In ATA low-risk and intermediate-risk patients who have had remnant ablation or
adjuvant therapy and negative cervical US, serum Tg should be measured at 6–18
months on thyroxine therapy with a sensitive Tg assay (<0.2 ng/mL) or after TSH
stimulation to verify absence of disease (excellent response).
Repeat TSH-stimulated Tg testing is not recommended for low- and intermediate-risk
patients with an excellent response to therapy.
Subsequent TSH-stimulated Tg testing may be considered in patients with an indeterminate,
biochemical incomplete, or structural incomplete response following either additional
therapies or a spontaneous decline in Tg values on thyroid hormone therapy over time in
order to reassess response to therapy.
Subsequent stimulated testing is rarely needed for those with NED, because there are rarely
benefits seen in this patient population from repeated TSH-stimulated Tg testing. The use of
sensitive methods for serum Tg may obviate the need for rhTSH stimulation in low-risk
patients with a Tg on LT4 treatment below 0.1–0.2 ng/mL
33. CONCLUSIONI
la “gestione strategica” del DTC sta evolvendo da una responsabili-
tà individuale a una responsabilità collegiale - DMT con expertise
specifica … ma le “responsabilità” restano individuali !
Le linee- guida presentano aspetti controversi
bias di interpretazione e … contraddizioni
in particolare la “responsabilità clinica” della terapia (indicazioni,
modalità e FUP è del Medico-Nucleare (D.Lgs. 187/00, art. 5, comma 2)
Con l’idea di evitare terapie potenzialmente inutili si corre il rischio di
“non verificare “ lo stato effettivo della malattia e peggiorare la
prognosi a lungo termine attualmente eccellente
34. CONCLUSIONI
Nell’attesa che le società scientifiche italiane varino le Linee-Guida
ufficiali
usare il buon senso
utilizzare tutti gli strumenti per una stadiazione corretta (ATA,
TNM, Tg, 131 I whole body
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