Clinical Trials

The purpose of this study is to determine the optimal approach to the diagnosis and treatment of patients with thyroid disorders.

The purpose of this study is to field test and update an existing conversation aid prototype designed to support shared decision making in the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid cancer, and to conduct a pilot randomized multi-center trial to test the refined conversation aid.

The purpose of this study is to develop a radiological multivariate model to distinguish between malignant and benign CT-identified detected thyroid nodules. 

The purpose of this study is to evaluate microRNA biomarkers in the blood and fine-needle aspirate biopsies of thyroid nodules to determine their usefullness in pre-operative diagnosis, in particular to distinguish benign from cancerous thyroid nodules.

The purpose of this study is to compare progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with BRAF V600Em differentiated thyroid cancer who progressed on frontline multikinase inhibitor treated with dabrafenib/trametinib or cabozantinib.

The purpose of this study is to create a prospectively maintained database of patient and clinical factors, as well as collect survey data using validated quality-of-life metrics, to determine the impact and factors associated with quality of life after thyroid surgery for thyroid cancer.

The purpose of this study is to assess the use of lenvatinib to treat anaplastic thyroid cancer.

Objectives
The purpose of this study is to understand the clinicopathological and molecular characteristics associated with acquired resistance to kinase inhibitors in thyroid cancer.
 

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) therapy to treat papillary thyroid carcinoma.

The purpose of this pilot study is to evaluate the effects of Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) on thyroid hormones to treat thyroide nodules.

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of thyroid nodules would locally destroy follicular thyroid cells and could possibly impart conformational changes to the chemistry of thyroid hormones, thus altering their bioactive profiles. To evaluate this phenomenon, in vitro investigations to characterize qualitative and quantitve Mass Spectrometric chromatographic profile for thyroid hormones will be performed before and after RFA from patients undergoing ablation for thyroid nodules. {If there is a blood draw for clinical tests, we would request left over specimen from clinical ...

The objective of this study is to determine intensity of I-123 uptake in follicular thyroid lesions before surgery and correlate with final pathology findings.

This randomized phase II trial studies how well iodine I-131works with or without selumetinib in treating patients with thyroid cancer that has returned or has spread from where it started to other places in the body. Many thyroid cancers absorb iodine. Because of this, doctors often give radioactive iodine (iodine I-131) alone to treat thyroid cancer as part of standard practice. It is thought that the more thyroid tumors are able to absorb radioactive iodine, the more likely it is that the radioactive iodine will cause those tumors to shrink. Selumetinib may help radioactive iodine work better in patients whose ...

The purpose of this study is to determine whether an exercise program reduces fatigue and improves physical activity in thyroid cancer patients, and to determine the effect of a home-based program compared to a center- based program.

The purpose of this study is to investigate radiotracer 18F-tetrafluoroborate (18F-TFB) for imaging of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer

The purpose of this first-in-human study is designed to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK) and preliminary anti-tumor activity of LOXO-292 administered orally to patients with advanced solid tumors, including RET-fusion-positive solid tumors, medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) and other tumors with RET activation.

This phase II trial studies the effect of pembrolizumab, dabrafenib, and trametinib before surgery in treating patients with BRAF V600E-mutated anaplastic thyroid cancer. BRAF V600E is a specific mutation (change) in the BRAF gene, which makes a protein that is involved in sending signals in cells and in cell growth. It may increase the growth and spread of tumor cells. Dabrafenib and trametinib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as pembrolizumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with ...

The purpose of this study is to perform a comprehensive immunophenotypic analysis of peripheral bloods samples from patients with benign and malignant thyroid disease. This data will be used to determine whether patients with advanced thyroid cancers have significantly altered numbers and/or subtypes of circulating immune cells, in particular immunosuppressive monocytes.

The purpose of this study is to establish a human biobank of thyroid-derived tissues and blood samples from patients with thyroid disorders at Mayo Clinic in Rochester.

The purpose of this study is to determine how well cabozantinib, nivolumab, and ipilimumab work in treating patients with differentiated thyroid cancer that does not respond to radioactive iodine and that worsened after treatment with a drug targeting the vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR), a protein needed to form blood vessels. Cabozantinib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as nivolumab and ipilimumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. ...

The intent is to collect relevant clinical data on patients exposed to Agent Orange plus assessment of the tissue for genetic mutations known to be associated with growth of thyroid cancer and pituitary tumors and report our findings as a descriptive case series.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK), pharmacodynamics (PD), and preliminary antineoplastic activity of BLU-667 administered orally in patients with medullary thyroid cancer, RET-altered NSCLC and other RET-altered solid tumors.

The purpose of this study is to assess the safety/tolerability profile of E7386 as a single agent administered orally in participants with selected advanced or recurrent neoplasms and to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and/or recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D) of E7386.

This phase II trial studies how well cabozantinib-s-malate works in treating younger patients with sarcomas, Wilms tumor, or other rare tumors that have come back, do not respond to therapy, or are newly diagnosed. Cabozantinib-s-malate may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for tumor growth and tumor blood vessel growth.

The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of genetic mutations in cancer patients from various ethnic populations seeking care at Mayo Clinic cancer clinics.

The purpose of this multicenter prospective observational case-control study is to train and validate Adela’s cfMeDIP-seq based methylome profiling platform to detect and differentiate multiple cancer subtypes. In addition, this study includes longitudinal follow-up for a subset of participants to train and validate the methylome profiling platform to detect minimal residual disease and recurrence.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the challenges, behavioral patterns, and preferences of minority patient participation in clinical trials. Also, to develop and validate a personalized clinical trial educational platform to boost participation among underserved cancer patients.

GRAIL is using deep sequencing of circulating cell-free nucleic acids (cfNAs) to develop assays to detect cancer early in blood. The purpose of this study is to collect biological samples from donors with a new diagnosis of cancer (blood and tumor tissue) and from donors who do not have a diagnosis of cancer (blood) in order to characterize the population heterogeneity in cancer and non-cancer subjects and to develop models for distinguishing cancer from non-cancer.