Gene expression markers differentiating between malignant and benign follicular thyroid tumors
Differential diagnosis between malignant follicular thyroid cancer (FTC) and benign follicular thyroid adenoma (FTA) is a great challenge for even an experienced pathologist and requires special effort. Molecular markers may potentially support a differential diagnosis between FTC and FTA in postoperative specimens. The purpose of this study was to derive molecular support for the differential diagnosis, in the form of a simple multigene mRNA-based classifier that would differentiate between FTC and FTA tissue samples.
Cancer Type: Thyroid Cancer
GPL: 570
Number of Genes with Data: 978
Number Observations: 52
Number Outputs: 3
Imbalanced Ratio: 0.925925926
Default Task: Classification