Infiltration of B cell may underlie the contrary sex- and age-related biological behavior of papillary thyroid carcinoma
Caigu Yan,
Jinjin Sun,
Xianghui He
et al.
Abstract:Background and purpose Sex and age play complex and contrary roles in the pathogenesis, lymph node metastasis (LNM), and prognosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). This study aimed to explore the underlying mechanism of this phenomenon.Method The risk factors for LNM were explored by combining local data and the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database of PTC. The gene expression information of 497 samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas Thyroid Cancer (TCGA-THCA) was used to explore the d… Show more
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