Table 1. Number of patients and tissue specimens for this study. Patients are divided by cohort and sub-group. The tissue specimens are categorized into tumor (T), tumor-normal margin (TN), and normal (N).
| Group | Patients | Number of Tissue Specimens |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T | TN | N | ||
| Thyroid Tumor Cohort | ||||
| Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (PTC) | 54 | 41 | 38 | 59 |
| Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma (MTC) & Insular Carcinoma | 6 | 4 | 6 | 8 |
| Follicular Adenoma & Carcinoma | 13 | 14 | 10 | 12 |
| Poorly Differentiated Carcinoma | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Salivary Tumor Cohort | ||||
| Parotid Gland Tumor | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Other Salivary Gland Tumor | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Total | 82 | 69 | 61 | 86 |