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Status unknownNCT03978351Updated Jun 7, 2019

The Role of Midkine in Diagnosis of Thyroid Cancer

An observational study in Thyroid Cancer, sponsored by Assiut University. Status unknown. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-06-07.

Sponsored by Assiut University · Observational

The sponsor has not verified this record recently (last verified Sep 2018), so the status shown — last known as Not yet recruiting — may be out of date.
Study type
Observational
Model
Case-control
Time perspective
Retrospective
Enrollment
85
Sex
All
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Study summary

  1. Evaluation of the role of serum midkine in differentiating malignant from benign thyroid nodule
  2. studying the level of serum midkine in relation to different thyroid cancer stages
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Conditions studied

  • Thyroid Cancer
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In context

Thyroid Neoplasms

802 studies on the registry are indexed under Thyroid Neoplasms; 216 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 85 is below the median of 172 across 261 observational studies indexed under Thyroid Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Assiut University is the lead sponsor of 4,901 studies on the registry; 2,098 are open to participants now.

Of its 13 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 0 (0%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Child (0–17), Adult (18–64), Older adult (65+)
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes
Sampling method
Probability sample

Study population

This study will be conducted on 85 informed and consented individuals (according to the guidelines of ethical committee of faculty of Medicine, Assuit University ) The study will include 30 patients with thyroid cancer and 30 patients with benign thyroid diseases. The study will also include 25 aged matched apparently healthy individuals as a control group.

Inclusion criteria

patient with thyroid nodule

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Other known organ tumour
  2. Chemothyrapy
  3. Radiothyrapy c. Sample Size Calculation
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Study design

Observational model
Case-control
Time perspective
Retrospective
Enrollment
85 participants (estimated)
Patient registry
No
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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. serum midkine levels

    Time frame: Baseline

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Study locations

No study locations are listed for this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jun 7, 2019, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03978351
Lead sponsor
Assiut University
Responsible party
Marwa Hassan Thabet Ahmed (Principal investigator, Assiut University) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jun 7, 2019
Start date
Sep 2019 (estimated)
Primary completion
Nov 2020 (estimated)
Completion
Dec 2020 (estimated)
Last update
Jun 7, 2019

Study contacts

Marwa Hassan, Master
Contact
meromoro1010@gmail.com
01004748373

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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