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. 2020 Feb 4;16(1):32–39. doi: 10.17925/EE.2020.16.1.32

Table 1: Anticancer drugs causing thyroid dysfunction.

Immune checkpoint inhibitors Hypophysitis (ipilimumab, nivolumab)
Primary thyroid dysfunction (ipilimumab, nivolumab, pembrolizumab)
Tyrosine kinase inhibitors Hypothyroidism (sunitinib, sorafenib, axitinib, pazopanib, vandetanib, motesanib)
Increased levothyroxine requirement in thyrodectomised patients (imatinib, sorafenib, motesanib)
Interferon-α Hypothyroidism, destructive thyroiditis
Interleukin-2 Hypothyroidism
Alemtuzumab Graves’ disease
Thalidomide analogues Hypothyroidism, ischaemic thyroiditis (thalidomide, lenalidomide)
Radioiodine-based cancer therapy Hypothyroidism, radiation thyroiditis
Bexarotene Central hypothyroidism
Conventional agents Alteration in thyroid binding proteins (not clinically relevant) (mitotane, 5-fluorouracil, oestrogens, tamoxifen, podophyllin, L-asparaginase)