Scientific Reports (Aug 2023)

Clinical significance of oxidative stress markers as angioinvasion and metastasis indicators in papillary thyroid cancer

  • Angelika Buczyńska,
  • Iwona Sidorkiewicz,
  • Maria Kościuszko,
  • Agnieszka Adamska,
  • Katarzyna Siewko,
  • Janusz Dzięcioł,
  • Piotr Szumowski,
  • Janusz Myśliwiec,
  • Małgorzata Szelachowska,
  • Anna Popławska-Kita,
  • Adam Krętowski

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-40898-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Abstract Angioinvasion remains the important prognostic feature in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) patients. Literature data indicates several markers that may be associated with oxidative stress and/or angioinvasion. Therefore, we assessed the utility of selected parameters in angioinvasion and metastasis screening in serum of PTC patients. Serum antioxidant capacity (TAC) and sirtuin 3 (SIRT3) levels were decreased (all p < 0.05) and both DNA/RNA oxidative stress damage products (DNA/RNA OSDP) and malondialdehyde (MDA) levels were increased in PTC patients with angioinvasion and metastasis (study group) when compared with PTC patients without these features (all p < 0.01). The highest screening utility in differentiation between angioinvasion and metastasis presence and absence in PTC patients was presented for DNA/RNA OSDP (AUC = 0.71), SIRT3 (AUC = 0.70), and TAC (AUC = 0.67) (all p < 0.05). Our study suggests that peripheral concentration of oxidative stress markers could be useful as angioinvasion and metastasis indicator in PTC patients.