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ArticleCancer medicine2022

Minimal residual disease assessment of papillary thyroid carcinoma through circulating tumor cell-based cytology.

Nadia Innaro, Rita Gervasi, Teresa Ferrazzo, Nastassia C Garo, Lucia S Curto, Annamaria Lavecchia, Isabella Aquila, Giuseppe Donato, Natalia Malara

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Article in Cancer medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Clinical Significance for Risk Stratification of Papillary Thyroid Cancer by TUMORFISHER Circulating Tumor Cell Technique.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Nadia InnaroUnit of Endocrinological surgery, Mater Domini Hospital of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
Rita GervasiUnit of Endocrinological surgery, Mater Domini Hospital of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
Teresa FerrazzoDepartment of Medical and Surgical Science, University "Magna Graecia" Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
Nastassia C GaroDepartment of Health Sciences, University "Magna Graecia" Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
Lucia S CurtoUnit of Endocrinological surgery, Mater Domini Hospital of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
Annamaria LavecchiaPathology Unit, Pugliese Hospital, Catanzaro, Italy.
Isabella AquilaDepartment of Health Sciences, University "Magna Graecia" Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
Giuseppe DonatoDepartment of Health Sciences, University "Magna Graecia" Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.
Natalia MalaraBioNEM Laboratory and Nanotechnology Research Center, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University "Magna Graecia" of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1719-293X
Magna Graecia University · ITAzienda Ospedaliero Universitario Mater Domini · ITAzienda Ospedaliera Pugliese Ciaccio · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The overall estimated risk of recurrence after an apparently complete thyroid cancer resection ranges from <1% to 55%, and the high-quality pathology report is crucial for proper risk stratification. The neck ultrasound (US) and serum thyroglobulin (Tg) and anti-Tg antibody (TgAb) assays are the mainstays for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer (DTC) follow-up. However, the neck US includes a high frequency of nonspecific findings and despite the serum, Tg unmasks the presence of thyrocytes, it is not discriminating between normal and malignant cells. In this study, to improve post-surgery follow-up of minimal residual disease in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) patients, blood-derived cytology specimens were evaluated for the presence of circulating tumor cells (CTCs). The presence of CTCs of thyroid origin was confirmed by cytomorphological and tissue-specific antigens analysis (Thyroid Transcription Factor-1/TTF-1 and Tg) and proliferative profile (percentage of cells in S-phase). Our data revealed an unfavorable' prognostic risk in patients with >5% CTCs (p = 0.09) and with >30% S-phase cells at baseline (p = 0.0015), predicting ≤1 year relapsing lesion event. These results suggest a new intriguing frontier of precision oncology forefront cytology-based liquid biopsy.

Indexed as

Carcinoma, PapillaryNeoplastic Cells, CirculatingThyroid NeoplasmsHumansNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalNeoplasm, ResidualPrecision MedicineThyroid Cancer, Papillarycirculating tumor cellscytology CTCsLiquid biopsyPTCrecurrence riskshort-time cultured CTCs

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PMID35586892
PMCPMC9761073
OpenAlexW4280531985

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