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An integrated single-cell and spatial transcriptomic atlas of thyroid cancer progression identifies prognostic fibroblast subpopulations.
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- Single-Cell Transcriptome of Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer Reveals Immunosuppressive Tumor Microenvironment Remodeling.Cancer medicine · 2026Article
- Single-cell RNA sequencing: a powerful tool to study heterogeneity in papillary and anaplastic thyroid carcinoma.European thyroid journal · 2026Review
- PRECISE: A Prognostic Thyrocyte-Derived Gene Signature for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026Article
- Visualizing malignant progression: in situ CD109-based spatial immunofluorescence assay delineates papillary to anaplastic thyroid carcinoma transformation within the tumor microenvironment.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Targeting β-catenin: PROTACs and precision degraders for Wnt-driven cancers.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
- Hashimoto's thyroiditis both promotes and protects against papillary thyroid cancer.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Review
- Roles and subtypes of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in thyroid cancer.American journal of cancer research · 2026Review
- Cell-state transitions and microenvironmental remodeling in thyroid cancer progression revealed by single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Spatial Transcriptomics in Thyroid Cancer: Applications, Limitations, and Future Perspectives.Cells · 2025Review
- NOVEL INSIGHTS IN ADVANCED THYROID CARCINOMA: FROM MECHANISMS TO TREATMENTS: Molecular insights into the origin, biology, and treatment of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma.European thyroid journal · 2025Review
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Abstract
Although well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (WDTC) is characterized by a robust treatment response, aggressive subtypes, such as anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC), remain highly lethal. To understand thyroid cancer evolution in both children and adults, we analyzed single-cell transcriptomes of 423,733 cells from 81 samples and spatially resolved key tumor and microenvironment populations across 28 tumors with spatial transcriptomics, including rare and unique composite WDTC/ATC tumors and pediatric diffuse sclerosing thyroid carcinomas. Additionally, we identified gene signatures of stromal cell populations in 5 large thyroid cancer bulk RNA-sequencing cohorts. Through this multi-institutional effort, we defined a population of POSTN+ myofibroblast cancer-associated fibroblasts (myCAFs) that are intimately associated with invasive tumor cells and correlate with poor prognosis, lymph node metastasis, and disease progression in thyroid carcinoma. We also revealed a population of inflammatory CAFs that are distant to tumor cells and are found in the inflammatory stromal microenvironment of autoimmune thyroiditis. Together, our study provides spatial profiling of thyroid cancer evolution in samples with mixed WDTC/ATC histopathology and identifies a prognostic myCAF subtype with potential clinical utility in predicting aggressive disease in both children and adults.
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