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  • * The patient's prior treatment mainly involved chemotherapy, surgery, radiation, and autologous stem cell transplant, but she experienced a relapse two years later.
  • * Although the 131I-MIBG treatment didn't fully eliminate the tumor, it did reduce its size, leading to the recommendation that this combined approach should be considered as a first-line treatment for high-risk neuroblastoma patients.

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Iodine-131-metaiodiobenzylguanidine (131I-MIBG) therapy combined with allogeneic cord blood stem cell transplantation (SCT) was used to treat a 4-year-old girl with recurrent neuroblastoma. The patient experienced relapse 2 years after receiving first-line therapies, which included chemotherapy, surgical resection, irradiation, and autologous peripheral SCT. Although 131I-MIBG treatment did not achieve complete remission, the size of the tumor was reduced after treatment. Based on our findings, we suggest that 131I-MIBG treatment with myeloablative allogeneic SCT should be considered as first-line therapy for high-risk neuroblastoma patients when possible.

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