# Total Thyroidectomy With and Without Prophylactic Central Neck Lymph Node Dissection in People With Low-risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer

> **NCT02408887** · PHASE2 · TERMINATED · sponsor: **National Cancer Institute (NCI)** · enrollment: 14 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Low-risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer
- Endocrine Malignancy
- Thyroid Cancer

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Total Thyroidectomy (TT)
- **PROCEDURE:** Prophylactic central neck lymph node dissection (pCND)

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT02408887
- **Lead sponsor:** National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- **Sponsor class:** NIH
- **Phase:** PHASE2
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2015-04-15
- **Primary completion:** 2019-03-26
- **Final completion:** 2019-05-07
- **Target enrollment:** 14 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** Slow/Insufficient accrual
- **Last updated:** 2022-09-27


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02408887

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT02408887, "Total Thyroidectomy With and Without Prophylactic Central Neck Lymph Node Dissection in People With Low-risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT02408887. Licensed CC0.

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