FoxP3 promotes lymph node metastasis in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma complicated with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis

Department of Medical Oncology, The First People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650032, China; Department of Anesthesiology, Minhang Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China; Department of Breast and Thyroid Surgery, The First People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650032, China; Institute of Clinical and Basic Medicine Research, The First People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650032, China Contributions: (I) Conception and design: R Zeng, X Yan; (II) Administrative support: H Niu, K Yang; (III) Provision of study materials or patients: H Niu; (IV) Collection and assembly of data: R Zeng, Y Lyu; (V) Data analysis and interpretation: R Zeng, Y Lyu; (VI) Manuscript writing: All authors; (VII) Final approval of manuscript: All authors. These authors contributed equally to this work. Correspondence to: Xinmin Yan. Institute of Clinical and Basic Medicine Research, The First People’s Hospital of Yunnan Province, The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology, No. 157 Jinbi Road, Kunming 650032, China. Email: yxmin08@sina.com.