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ORPHA:99869

Thymic neuroendocrine carcinoma

high confidenceDisorder

Publications

175

62.4th percentile

Trials

1

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,081

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

Thymic neuroendocrine carcinoma is a type of thymic epithelial neoplasm displaying evidence of neuroendocrine differentiation.

How rare: How common this is has not been clearly measured.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.

Additional Mondo synonyms (3)

neuroendocrine carcinoma of thymus · thymic neuroendocrine carcinoma · thymus neuroendocrine carcinoma

Research stages

Trial readiness signals

Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”

2/6 stages with a signal

An interventional trial matched this condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov — see trials below.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    175 matched papers (79 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO

  4. Animal modelNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance

  5. Orphan designationNot checked

    FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet

  6. Interventional trialPresent

    1 matched on ClinicalTrials.gov (1 recruiting in sample)

Biology

Genes and phenotypes

Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.

Do we know what causes it?

Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.

No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

Not enriched in this build — Monarch phenotype joins were not run for this record.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

Not enriched in this build.

Literature

Is anyone studying this?

175

175 papers have ever been published on this condition (under this name). For scale, breast cancer has over 700,000. Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=5449) is 41.

175 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 41 (publications denominator n=5449).

79 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 62.4th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 175 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,081

Distinct author names in 175 sampled papers — named people below.

Who's working on it?

People publishing on this condition (sampled Europe PMC records). Affiliation is the most recent found in that sample.

  1. 01
    Moran CA8 papers · 2014

    Department of Pulmonary & Mediastinal Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (CAM), Washington, DC, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Date H6 papers · 2025

    Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Hamaji M6 papers · 2025

    Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Nakagawa T6 papers · 2025

    Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tenri Hospital, Nara, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Omasa M6 papers · 2025

    Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nishi Kobe Medical Center, Kobe, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Aoyama A5 papers · 2021

    Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Chen Y5 papers · 2024

    Department of Interventional Radiology The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University Zhengzhou China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Wang Y5 papers · 2024

    1] Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892 [2] Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington DC 20007.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Huang C4 papers · 2025

    Department of Biotherapy, Oxidative Stress Research Center, Cancer Center and State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Huang CL4 papers · 2021

    Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

1

interventional trials for this specific condition

1 interventional trial matched this specific condition name; 1 currently recruiting in our sample. 168 trials are registered for neuroendocrine carcinoma, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.

Data as of 27 July 2026

1 interventional trial — more than 73% of diseases in the trials denominator have none at all (5114 of 7003; this disease is at the 76.8th percentile).

high confidence · 76.8th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

1 interventional trials matched after quoted-phrase search and title/condition post-filter.

Broader category: neuroendocrine carcinoma

168

Interventional trials for the parent category, exclusive of NCT IDs already counted above. Eligibility for this subtype is not guaranteed.

Worth raising with a clinician. How we count trials.

Recruiting under the broader category

Observational and natural-history studies

1 observational study matches this condition. These do not test a treatment and are not counted in the interventional-trial headline, but they are genuine research: natural-history work often defines the endpoints needed for a future rare-disease trial, and families may be able to enroll.

Recruiting or not-yet-recruiting

Open the complete matched search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Where to find support

We do not yet link condition-specific patient organisations. These umbrella groups support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families:

India — NPRD

Last verified 2026-07-26

This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.

Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.

How we counted this

Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.

"Thymic neuroendocrine carcinoma" OR "neuroendocrine carcinoma of thymus" OR "neuroendocrine carcinoma of the thymus" OR "thymus neuroendocrine carcinoma"

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ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):

"Thymic neuroendocrine carcinoma" OR "neuroendocrine carcinoma of thymus" OR "neuroendocrine carcinoma of the thymus" OR "thymus neuroendocrine carcinoma"

Interventional trials matched via: phrase (mesh = registered under a MeSH descriptor no name phrase would catch; recall-expansion = gene / selected parent terms used only for trials).

Study-type breakdown: 1 interventional · 1 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Parent-category trials query:

"neuroendocrine carcinoma"

Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; with hits: phrase

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
  • No synonyms dropped by stoplist
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus

Ingested 2026-07-27T06:27:26.009Z