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ArticleClinical and experimental medicine2023

Cancer-associated fibroblasts in papillary thyroid carcinoma.

Li Zhu, Xuemei Zhang, Shuhan Zhang, Qicheng Zhang, Limin Cao, Yujie Zhang, Dan Wang, Xiaohui Liang, Weiming Wu, Shuanghu Wu and 6 more

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Article in Clinical and experimental medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Li Zhu *Department of Ultrasound, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, 300052, Tianjin, People's Republic of China.
Xuemei ZhangDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, 300052, Tianjin, People's Republic of China.
Shuhan Zhang *Department of Preventive Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, 300070, People's Republic of China.
Qicheng ZhangTianjin Key Laboratory of Lung Cancer Metastasis and Tumor Microenvironment, Tianjin Lung Cancer Institute, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, People's Republic of China.
Limin CaoTianjin Key Laboratory of Lung Cancer Metastasis and Tumor Microenvironment, Tianjin Lung Cancer Institute, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, People's Republic of China.
Yujie ZhangDepartment of Pathology, Tianjin First Central Hospital, 300190, Tianjin, People's Republic of China.
Dan WangDepartment of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, 300052, Tianjin, People's Republic of China.
Xiaohui LiangDepartment of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, 300052, Tianjin, People's Republic of China.
Weiming WuDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, 300052, Tianjin, People's Republic of China.
Shuanghu WuDepartment of General Surgery, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, 300052, Tianjin, People's Republic of China.
Ruoyu JiangDepartment of General Surgery, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, 300052, Tianjin, People's Republic of China.
Yue LiuDepartment of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, 300060, Tianjin, People's Republic of China.
Xue ZhaoPathology Section, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, 300052, Tianjin, People's Republic of China.
Guiming ZhouDepartment of Ultrasound, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, 300052, Tianjin, People's Republic of China. zhouguiming_ucgok@126.com.
Ke XuTianjin Key Laboratory of Lung Cancer Metastasis and Tumor Microenvironment, Tianjin Lung Cancer Institute, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, People's Republic of China. ke_xu@hotmail.com.
Zhaowei MengDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, 300052, Tianjin, People's Republic of China. zmeng@tmu.edu.cn.
Tianjin Medical University General Hospital · CNTianjin First Center Hospital · CNTianjin Medical University · CNTianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital · CN

Funding

Tianjin Science and Technology Committee Foundation 21JCYBJC01820
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) has a relatively good prognosis, yet there are some invasive PTC cases with worse clinicopathological features and poor outcome. Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) play an important role in cancer invasion and metastasis. This study aimed to investigate the expression of marker proteins of CAFs in PTC and their correlations with clinicopathological features through immunohistochemistry. The medical records of 125 PTC patients were reviewed in this study, whose specimens were retrieved for immunohistochemistry. Four CAFs marker proteins, FAP fibroblast activated protein (FAP), α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA), Vimentin and platelet-derived growth factor receptor-α(PDGFR-α), were stained and scored. Then, statistical analyses were performed. The immunoreactivity scores of FAP and α-SMA correlated with tumor size, BRAF mutation, extrathyroidal, invasion, pathological subtype, lymph node metastasis and ATA risk stratification. Moreover, binary logistic regression analysis and receiver operating characteristic curves showed that high FAP and α-SMA immunoreactivity scores were risk factors for extrathyroidal invasion, BRAF mutation, multi-focality and lymph node metastasis (especially N1b) with good sensitivity and accuracy in prediction. A better performance was found in FAP than α-SMA. Strong expressions of CAFs were risk factors for worse thyroid cancer clinicopathological features. FAP was the better CAFs marker for PTC.

Indexed as

Cancer-Associated FibroblastsThyroid NeoplasmsHumansLymphatic MetastasisProto-Oncogene Proteins B-rafThyroid Cancer, PapillaryProto-Oncogene Proteins B-rafCancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs)Extrathyroidal invasionLymph node metastasisMulti-focalityPapillary thyroid cancer (PTC)Risk factor

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PMID36715834
OpenAlexW4318476415

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