Purpose Pathologic complete response (pCR) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is
commonly accepted as the gold standard to assess outcome after NAC in breast cancer …

Objective Preoperative evaluation of cervical lymph node metastasis (LNM) in papillary
thyroid carcinoma (PTC) has been one of the serious clinical challenges. The present study …

The treatment of differentiated thyroid cancer continues to move away from a 'one size fits
all'approach to a process of tailored therapeutic decision-making that incorporates disease …

Objective Recently, lymph node ratio (LNR) has emerged as an alternative to American Joint
Committee on Cancer (AJCC) N stage, with superior prognostic value. The utility of LNR in …

Background: Gross strap muscle invasion (gSMI) in patients with differentiated thyroid
cancer (DTC) was defined as high-risk recurrent group in the 2015 American Thyroid …

This study aimed to establish a model for predicting lateral neck lymph node metastasis in
patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma. A total of 106 patients with papillary thyroid …

Background Regional lymph node (LN) metastasis at the time of presentation plays a
significant role in predicting recurrence in patients with papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) …

OBJECTIVES Due to the lack of prospective studies, the role of the lymph node ratio (LNR)
in small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) remains unknown. This study aimed to assess the …

The clinical significance of thyroglobulin (Tg) expression in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC)
has not been systematically explored in relation to the Ki-67 index, lymph node ratio (LNR) …

Background MicroRNAs bind the 3′ untranslated regions (3′-UTRs) of mRNAs and
thereby regulate gene expression post-transcriptionally and play an important role in cancer …