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Clinical Evaluation of a New Highly Sensitive Thyroglobulin Assay in Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma

NCT00148213

Sponsor

University Hospital Muenster

Status

Completed

Last Update Posted

Sep 7, 2005Estimated

Enrollment

100

Phase

Not provided

Conditions

Thyroid Neoplasms

Interventions

Not provided

Countries

Germany

Protocol Section

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Results Section

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Document Section

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Protocol Section

Identification Module

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Results Section

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Annotation Section

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Document Section

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Miscellaneous Info Module

Version Holder

Status Module

Record Verification Date

Sep 2005

Overall Recruitment Status or Expanded Access Status

Completed

Last Known Status

Not provided

Delayed Posting

Not provided

Why Stopped

Not provided

Expanded Access Info

Start Date

Sep 2003

Primary Completion Date

Not provided

Completion Date

Jun 2005

First Submitted Date

Sep 6, 2005

First Submission Date that Met QC Criteria

Sep 6, 2005

First Posted Date

Sep 7, 2005Estimated

Results Waived

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Results First Submitted Date

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Results First Submitted that Met QC Criteria

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Results First Posted Date

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Last Update Submitted Date

Sep 6, 2005

Last Update Posted Date

Sep 7, 2005Estimated

Name	Class
Nichols Institute Diagnostika GmbH, Bad Vilbel, Germany	UNKNOWN

Description Module

Brief Summary

Human thyroglobulin (Tg) is the most sensitive biochemical marker for recurrence of differentiated cancer (DTC), especially after the complete removal of thyroid tissue through surgery and radioiodine therapy (RIT).

Unfortunately, current assays for measuring Tg in blood samples are not sensitive enough to reliably measure Tg while patients are under thyroid hormone replacement therapy. Instead patients have to withdraw thyroid hormone for several weeks or receive costly injections of recombinant thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) in order to raise Tg production by thyroid remnant and/or thyroid cancer cells so that it can be measured by current Tg assays. Other patients have antibodies against Tg that interfere in current immunoassays.

The purpose of the study was to characterize a new highly sensitive assay for measuring Tg in the serum in thyroid cancer patients both on thyroid hormone therapy and off therapy in comparison to the normal routine assay already in use at Münster University Hospital.

Detailed Description

Sera of 100 consecutive DTC patients after total thyroidectomy were to be collected at the Department of Nuclear Medicine both under TSH-suppression therapy and under endogenous TSH stimulation (TSH > 25 mU/l). All patients were staged by clinical examination, cervical ultrasound (7.5 MHz), I-131 whole-body scintigraphy and - where applicable - F18-FDG-PET. Written informed consent was obtained from all pts. Sera were taken in separation tubes without anticoagulants and stored at -20°C until analysis. Sera were allowed to come to room temperature prior to analysis.

Tg, TgR and TgAb concentrations were determined by fully automated two-site chemiluminescence immunoassays (CLIA; Nichols Advantage®; Nichols Institute Diagnostics, San Clemente, California). All 3 assays are based on the identical highly purified hTg material for calibration (Tg), recovery (TgR) and antigen (TgAb; biotinylated and acridinium ester labeled) for optimum comparability of test results.

In addition, Tg and TgR was measured by a fully automated two-site TRACE immunoassay (BRAHMS Kryptor®, Brahms AG, Hennigsdorf, Germany) and TSH with a 3rd-generation CLIA assay (TSH-3, Advia Centaur, Bayer Corporation).

Design Module

Study Type

Observational

Number of References to an Expanded Access Study

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Expanded Access Types

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Patient Registry

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Target Follow-Up Duration

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Interventional Study Design

Allocation

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Intervention Model

Biospecimen

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Enrollment

100

Eligibility Module

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

histological diagnosis of differentiated thyroid carcinoma
total or near total thyroidectomy
informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

no informed consent

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Sex

All

Sex/Gender Based

Not provided

Sex/Gender Description

Not provided

Minimum Age

0 Years

Maximum Age

Not provided

Standard Ages

ChildAdultOlder Adult

Study Population

Not provided

Sampling Method

Not provided

Contacts/Locations Module

Central Contacts

Not provided

Overall Officials

Name	Affiliation	Role
Martin Biermann, MD	Münster University Hospital	Principal Investigator

Locations

Facility	Status	City	State	ZIP	Country	Contacts
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Münster University Hospital		Münster		48129	Germany

References Module

Citations

PubMed Identifier	Type	Citation	Retractions
	Result	Biermann M, Nofer JR, Riemann B, Lu J, Wilde J, Schober O. Clinical evaluation of a new highly sensitive thyroglobulin assay (Nichols Advantage®) in 99 patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) after total thyroidectomy [Abstract]. Clin Chem. 2004;50:A73.

ID	Term
D004701	Endocrine Gland Neoplasms
D009371	Neoplasms by Site
D009369	Neoplasms
D006258	Head and Neck Neoplasms