Study of Clinical Outcomes of Thyroid Cancer (ITCO)

University of Roma La Sapienza

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Thyroid Neoplasms

Treatments: Procedure: Standard treatment

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04031339

3366

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Italian Thyroid Cancer Observatory (ITCO) repository was established to collect data on thyroid cancer management in a prospective and consecutive series of newly-diagnosed patients, enrolled in centers uniformly distributed across the nation.

Full description

Little information is available on current practices in the treatment of thyroid cancer: a web-based thyroid cancer database was created to collect real-life data. The participants' network include tertiary referral centers operating at the national level, as well as smaller hospital-based units with local or regional recruitment areas.

Enrollment: 15,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• pathologically confirmed thyroid cancer
• clinical follow-up including serum thyroglobulin (Tg) assays, circulating Tg antibodies, and high-resolution gray-scale and color Doppler US of the thyroid bed and cervical lymph node compartments. Additional imaging studies and/or fine-needle aspiration biopsy for cytology are ordered at the examiner's discretion in accordance with evidence-based guidelines
• entire follow-up at a participating clinical center.

Exclusion criteria

• patients referred to the recruiting centers ≥12 months from the primary treatment

Trial design

15,000 participants in 1 patient group

Patients diagnosed with thyroid cancer

Description:

Patients with histologically-confirmed diagnoses of papillary, follicular, Hürthle, poorly differentiated, anaplastic, or medullary thyroid cancer

Treatment:

Procedure: Standard treatment