Abstract
The inflammatory microenvironment is closely related to the occurrence and development of cancer. Members of the interleukin-12 (IL-12) cytokine family play synergistic or antagonistic roles in the tumor microenvironment, in the form of classic heterodimers or newly discovered monomers or homodimers. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between IL-12A and the clinicopathology and prognosis of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). A total of 101 pathologically confirmed DTC patients were included in this study. Immunohistochemistry was performed to assess IL-12A expression in DTC and corresponding paracancerous tissues. The associations of IL-12A with clinicopathology and prognosis were evaluated. IL-12A was expressed in both normal thyroid tissues and DTC, but its expression level was significantly higher in DTC than in normal thyroid tissues (p < 0.001). IL-12A was positively correlated with tumor size (p = 0.027), risk stratification (p = 0.020), and TNM (Tumor-Node-Metastasis) stage (p = 0.024), but not with age, sex, pathological type, multifocality, extrathyroid extension, lymph node metastasis, and distant metastasis (all p > 0.05). Lymphocytic thyroiditis was found in 26/101 patients (25.7%), which...Continue Reading
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