“…It is thought that emission of ionising radiation at this site results in tumour decay (Mukherjee et al, 2001;Rose et al, 2003;Pasieka et al, 2004). This therapy has been used to treat NETs of various types, including gastroenteropancreatic NETs (Pathirana et al, 2001;Pasieka et al, 2004;Safford et al, 2004;Sywak et al, 2004;Buscombe et al, 2005), paraglangliomas (Mukherjee et al, 2001;Safford et al, 2003;Fitzgerald et al, 2006), phaeochromocytomas (Castellani et al, 2000;Rose et al, 2003;Safford et al, 2004;Fitzgerald et al, 2006), medullary carcinoma of the thyroid (Castellani et al, 2000(Castellani et al, , 2003Mukherjee et al, 2001) and neuroblastomas (Howard et al, 2005;Matthay et al, 2007). A number of previous studies had demonstrated significant symptomatic benefit in 40 -60% of patients with metastatic NETs following 131 I-MIBG therapy (Safford et al, 2004;Sywak et al, 2004), in a safe and cost-effective manner (Pathirana et al, 2001).…”