CORE-NEEDLE BIOPSY OF THYROID IN COMBINATION WITH TELOMERASE ACTIVITY DETECTION AS A NEW METHOD FOR PREOPERATIVE DIAGNOSTICS OF THYROID NODULES

Issue: 
9
Year: 
2016

A.I. Glukhov
Dr.Sc. (Biol.), Professor, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University;
Medical Faculty, Biochemistry Department, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University
E-mail: aiglukhov1958@gmail.com
S.A. Gordeev
Ph.D. (Biol.), Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University;
Medical Faculty, Biochemistry Department, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University
A.E. Gubareva
Ph.D. (Med.), Medical Faculty, Biochemistry Department, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University
V.A. Golenchenko
Ph.D. (Biol.), Medical Faculty, Biochemistry Department, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University

High telomerase activity (TA) in thyroid tissue sample could indicate malignancy, but on preoperative stage evaluation of TA in fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) sample is considered to be ineffective due to inadequate quality of sample. Core-needle biopsy (CNB) of thyroid gives material of potentially higher amount and quality, but TA has not been measured in CNB thyroid samples before. The aim of this work is to study the level of telomerase activity in thyroid nodules after CNB.
Keywords: 
Key words: telomerase
thyroid cancer
core-needle biopsy
preoperative diagnostics
malignancy.