Report Describes How Skin Cancer Treatment Resulted in Hypoparathyroidism

Treatment with an immunotherapy regimen against skin cancer resulted in a rare case of immune-mediated hypoparathyroidism, according to a case report. This rare case was described in a study, “Inflammation-induced hypoparathyroidism triggered by combination immune checkpoint blockade for melanoma,” published in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer.