Vitamin d levels may predict thyroid side effects in cancer treatment
NCT ID NCT04615988
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at whether the amount of vitamin D in your blood affects your chance of developing thyroid problems while receiving immunotherapy for cancer. Researchers will measure vitamin D and thyroid function before and during standard cancer treatment. The goal is to see if people with low vitamin D are more likely to have thyroid side effects.
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Study facts
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- Participants
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About 17 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jun 2021
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2028
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Eligible subjects are adults age 18 or older with advanced cancer and are planned to receive standard of care treatment with a PD-1/L-1 inhibitor or with standard of care anti-CTLA-4 plus antiPD-1/L1 inhibitors.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Inclusion Criteria: * Malignancy which the treating oncologist plans for next treatment to inhibit PD-1or PD-L1 with the immune inhibitor being the only immunotherapy. Twenty-five subjects in a separate cohort will need for eligibility to be planned for treatment with anti-PD1/PD-L1 plus antri-CTLA-4 therapy. * Willingness to complete symptom questionnaires * Willingness to allow blood draws * Ability to provide informed consent * Age \> 18 years old Exclusion Criteria: * History of clinical or subclinical hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism * Hemoglobin \< 9 * Inability to come for all study visits. * Actively on vitamin D supplementation due to vitamin D deficiency (As part of a multivitamin is not exclusionary) * Pregnant or lactating * History of hypophysitis
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Conditions
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Mount Sinai Hospital /Tisch Cancer Cancer/Ruttenberg Treatment Center
RECRUITINGNew York, New York, 10029, United States
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