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This study utilizes a multi-institutional registry to describe the natural history of medullary thyroid cancer that has spread from where it first started to nearby tissue, lymph nodes, or distant parts of the body (advanced) in understanding disease management. The goal of this study is to learn about how medullary thyroid cancer develops and progresses.


Clinical Trial Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To describe the natural history of medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) using a comprehensive battery of demographic, clinical, pathologic, and genotypic variables collected in our existing multi-institutional patient registry. Ia. To describe the demographic, clinical, pathologic, and genotypic variables associated with each phase of disease. Ib. To identify those variables which are predictors of progression to the most advanced phases of disease that require small molecule therapy, including commercially approved and experimental agents. II. To characterize patients' experience with the different phases of MTC through a systematic evaluation of patient-reported outcomes (PROs). IIa. To describe clinical, psychosocial, economic, and physical well-being variables and the subsequent impact on quality of life associated with each phase of disease. IIb. To evaluate longitudinal changes in clinical, psychosocial, economic, and physical well-being variables between and within all phases of MTC, and the subsequent impact they have on quality of life. III. To evaluate the association of selected biometric and patient-reported outcomes on adherence, change, and discontinuation of approved targeted therapies and drugs being tested within clinical trial. OUTLINE: AIM I & II: Patients complete questionnaires over 10-40 minutes 2-4 times per year about health and how finances and quality of life effect experience with disease. AIM III: Patients complete a questionnaire over 2 minutes and undergo blood pressure measurements every day for up to 12 weeks. The questionnaire data gets paired with the collected medical record history that is maintained in the Registry. ;


Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms

  • Advanced Thyroid Gland Medullary Carcinoma
  • Carcinoma
  • Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine
  • Stage III Thyroid Gland Medullary Carcinoma AJCC v8
  • Stage IV Thyroid Gland Medullary Carcinoma AJCC v8
  • Stage IVA Thyroid Gland Medullary Carcinoma AJCC v8
  • Stage IVB Thyroid Gland Medullary Carcinoma AJCC v8
  • Stage IVC Thyroid Gland Medullary Carcinoma AJCC v8
  • Thyroid Diseases
  • Thyroid Neoplasms

NCT number NCT04216732
Study type Observational
Source M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Contact Elizabeth G Grubbs
Phone 713-792-6940
Email eggrubbs@mdanderson.org
Status Recruiting
Phase
Start date January 10, 2020
Completion date September 1, 2026

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