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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2022

Thyroid Cancer Screening Using Tumor-Associated DN T Cells as Immunogenomic Markers.

Shahnawaz Imam, Rodis D Paparodis, Shafiya Imtiaz Rafiqi, Sophia Ali, Azra Niaz, Abed Kanzy, Yara E Tovar, Mohammed A Madkhali, Ahmed Elsherif, Feras Khogeer and 5 more

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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15 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Shahnawaz ImamDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States.
Rodis D PaparodisDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States.
Shafiya Imtiaz RafiqiDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States.
Sophia AliDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States.
Azra NiazDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States.
Abed KanzyDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States.
Yara E TovarDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States.
Mohammed A MadkhaliDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States.
Ahmed ElsherifDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States.
Feras KhogeerDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States.
Zeeshan A ZahidDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States.
Haider SarwarDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States.
Tamanna KarimDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States.
Nancy SalimDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States.
Juan C JaumeDivision of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States.
University of Toledo · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Thyroid nodules are an extremely common entity, and surgery is considered the ultimate diagnostic strategy in those with unclear malignant potential. Unfortunately, strategies aiming to predict the risk of malignancy have inadequate specificity. Our group recently found that the microenvironment of thyroid cancer is characterized by an enhanced immune invasion and activated immune response mediated by double-negative T lymphocytes (DN T) (CD3 Methods: We recruited 127 patients and obtained ultrasound-guided FNA samples from subjects with cytology-positive or suspicious for malignancy and from those with benign nodular goiter associated with compressive symptoms (such as dysphagia, shortness of breath, or hoarseness), Hashimoto thyroiditis, and Graves' disease. Out of 127, we investigated 46 FNA samples of patients who underwent total thyroidectomy and for which postoperative histological diagnosis by the academic pathologists was available. We specifically measured the number of cells expressing CD3 Results: The DN T cells were significantly more abundant in lymphocytic infiltrates of thyroid cancer cases compared to benign nodule controls (p < 0.0001). When the DN T-cell population exceeded a threshold of 9.14%, of total CD3 Conclusion: The present study proposes DN T cells' proportion as a preoperative diagnostic signature for thyroid cancer that with integration of RNA transcriptomics can provide a simplified technology based on the PCR assay for the ease of operation.

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active surveillanceDN T cellsimmune editingimmunogenomic markerPTCthyroid cancer

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