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Gary L. Francis
Researcher at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Publications - 74
Citations - 3470
Gary L. Francis is an academic researcher from University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. The author has contributed to research in topics: Thyroid & Thyroid cancer. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 70 publications receiving 3074 citations. Previous affiliations of Gary L. Francis include Boston Children's Hospital & Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
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Management Guidelines for Children with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
Gary L. Francis,Steven G. Waguespack,Andrew J. Bauer,Peter Angelos,Salvatore Benvenga,Janete M. Cerutti,Catherine A. Dinauer,Jill Hamilton,Ian D. Hay,Markus Luster,Marguerite T. Parisi,Marianna Rachmiel,Geoffrey B. Thompson,Shunichi Yamashita +13 more
TL;DR: These inaugural guidelines provide recommendations for the evaluation and management of thyroid nodules in children and adolescents, including the role and interpretation of ultrasound, fine-needle aspiration cytology, and the management of benign nodules.
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Gene expression and functional evidence of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in papillary thyroid carcinoma invasion
Vasily Vasko,Allan V. Espinosa,William T. Scouten,Huiling He,Herbert Auer,Herbert Auer,Sandya Liyanarachchi,Alexander Larin,Victoria Savchenko,Gary L. Francis,Gary L. Francis,Albert de la Chapelle,Motoyasu Saji,Matthew D. Ringel +13 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that EMT is common in PTC invasion and that vimentin regulates thyroid cancer EMT in vitro, and that Vimentin was required both for the development and maintenance of a mesenchymal morphology and invasiveness in thyroid cancer cells.
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The ret/PTC mutations are common in sporadic papillary thyroid carcinoma of children and young adults.
Cydney Fenton,Yvonne G. Lukes,Diarmuid Nicholson,Catherine A. Dinauer,Gary L. Francis,R. Michael Tuttle +5 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that ret/PTC mutations are common in sporadic childhood PTC, predominantly PTC-1, frequently multiple, and of different distribution than that reported for children with radiation-induced PTC.
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Clinical features associated with metastasis and recurrence of differentiated thyroid cancer in children, adolescents and young adults.
Catherine A. Dinauer,Michael Tuttle,Daniel K Robie,Donald R. McClellan,Rita L Svec,Carol F. Adair,Gary L. Francis +6 more
TL;DR: This review of 170 cases of childhood DTC reviewed 170 cases to determine if specific clinical or pathological findings were associated with increased risk of recurrence.
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Autoimmune Thyroid Disorders
TL;DR: The association of AI and thyroid cancer was first reported by Dailey et al.