Lipid Metabolic Status in Thyroid Carcinoma

NCT01487057 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 52

Last updated 2012-12-27

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Summary

The continuous increase of the incidence of the thyroid cancer in the last years has taken this neoplasia among the first 4 frequent cancers in the cancer registry of the Institute of Oncology "Prof.Ion Chiricuţă" from Cluj-Napoca (IOCN), with a total number of over 470 new cases per year, added to the other 3700 cases already being in the evidence of the Institute.

The radical treatment brings for a long term a compensated chronic drug induces mYxoedema with it's important side effects. Among these one can find the dislipidemia and the change of the high sensitive C reactive protein (hsCRP) serological value. In the last years, many epidemiological studies have confirmed the fact that the patients with a high serological value of the hsCRP present a higher risk for the coronary disease and heart attack.

Prospective studies developed in european countries and in USA have provided results that are related to the predictive value of the hsCRP determinations over the cardiovascular risk. Thus, hsCRP is an indirect risk factor for the coronary disease. The risk for cardiovascular disease is 2 to 7 times higher at the people with a high level of hsCRP comparing to ones with low levels; the increase of the hsCRP serological value can be determined several years before the clinical debut of the coronary disease.

The screening for this population group with a high risk can introduce in use the prevention of the cardiac pathology and change the approach to the monitoring of the patients with thyroid cancer. A selection protocol will be elaborated for the patients that will withdraw the hormone treatment by using recombinant thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) or will have personalised monitoring algorithm, with a shortening of the hormone treatment withdrawal.

Conditions

  • Thyroid Carcinoma
  • Dyslipidemias
  • Risk Reduction Behavior
  • Hormone Replacement

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy

    collaborator OTHER
  • Prof. Dr. I. Chiricuta Institute of Oncology

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Alexandru Irimie, PhD · IOCN

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-02-28
Primary Completion
2012-02-29
Completion
2012-05-31

Countries

  • Romania

Study Locations

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