Chewing-gum stimulation did not reduce the absorbed dose to salivary glands during radioiodine treatment of thyroid cancer as inferred from pre-therapy 124I PET/CT imaging

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Table 1 Patient characteristics of the chewing-gum stimulation group

Characteristics	Chewing-gum stimulation group
Started chewing gum base^a	Approximately 20 min
Number of patients	10
Age (years)^b	35 (30) ± 14 (21 to 64)
Gender (male/female)	4/6
Weight (kg)^b	76 (72) ± 15 (59 to 104)
Histology (papillary/follicular)	8/2
TSH stimulation (endogenous/exogenous)^c	10/0
TSH (mIU/L)^b	74 (68) ± 35 (36 to 150)

^aAfter ¹²⁴I administration. ^bMean (median) ± SD (range). ^cThyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) stimulation was achieved by hormone withdrawal (endogenous) or by injection of recombinant human TSH (exogenous).