Lenvatinib in multimodal therapy for unresectable radioactive iodine‐naïve differentiated thyroid cancer: A case report with literature review
Bibliographic record
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Patients with unresectable or metastatic differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) are rare and require individualized therapy. This may require approaches not typically used in resectable disease. We report a patient treated with lenvatinib and external beam radiation therapy. CASE: An 87-year-old woman presented with cT4N1aM1 papillary thyroid carcinoma with tracheal invasion. She was not a candidate for surgery, radioactive-iodine, or radiation, so a trial of lenvatinib was offered. Her tumor showed clinical, biochemical, and radiological response after 5 months of lenvatinib, and she subsequently received external beam radiation. She enjoys good quality of life without evidence of cancer progression off therapy 21 months post-initiation of treatment. CONCLUSION: Lenvatinib may be effective in RAI-naïve advanced DTC patients as a component of individualized multimodal therapy when conventional options are not feasible.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".