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Yuri E. Nikiforov is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and has a research focus primarily in Medicine, with a significant body of work involving Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Their contributions span 124 publications in medicine, with specific emphases on thyroid cancer, surgical interventions, genetics, oncology, and pathology.

They have authored numerous papers addressing various aspects of thyroid disease and cancer. Notable recent publications include:

  • 2021 American Thyroid Association Guidelines for Management of Patients with Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer, 2021, Thyroid
  • Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma of childhood and adolescence: a distinct entity characterized by DICER1 mutations, 2020, Modern Pathology
  • American Head and Neck Society Endocrine Surgery Section and International Thyroid Oncology Group consensus statement on mutational testing in thyroid cancer: Defining advanced thyroid cancer and its targeted treatment, 2022, Head & Neck
  • Risk assessment for distant metastasis in differentiated thyroid cancer using molecular profiling: A matched case-control study, 2021, Cancer
  • Limitations of Detecting Genetic Variants from the RNA Sequencing Data in Tissue and Fine-Needle Aspiration Samples, 2020, Thyroid

Yuri E. Nikiforov collaborates frequently with several co-authors who have contributed to a significant portion of their work. Frequent co-authors include Marina N. Nikiforova, Linwah Yip, Abigail I. Wald, Sally E. Carty, and Alyaksandr V. Nikitski.

Regarding publication venues, their research has appeared in journals such as:

  • Thyroid
  • Endocrine Related Cancer
  • Journal of the Endocrine Society
  • The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • Cancer Cytopathology

Yuri E. Nikiforov's work covers multiple subfields, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach. These include Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism; Surgery; Genetics; Oncology; and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

Main topics of their research involve:

  • Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
  • Head and Neck Anomalies
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics

In addition to scientific articles, they have contributed to book publications including a title published by State Academic University for the Humanities eBooks: The Value of the Victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War (2021).

Best Publications

  • 2015 American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Adult Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: The American Thyroid Association Guidelines Task Force on Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.

    Bryan R. Haugen;Erik K. Alexander;Keith C. Bible;Gerard M. Doherty

  • Integrated Genomic Characterization of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

    Nishant Agrawal;Rehan Akbani;B. Arman Aksoy;Adrian Ally

  • High prevalence of BRAF mutations in thyroid cancer: genetic evidence for constitutive activation of the RET/PTC-RAS-BRAF signaling pathway in papillary thyroid carcinoma.

    Edna T. Kimura;Marina N. Nikiforova;Zhaowen Zhu;Jeffrey A. Knauf

  • Nomenclature Revision for Encapsulated Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Paradigm Shift to Reduce Overtreatment of Indolent Tumors

    Yuri E. Nikiforov;Raja R. Seethala;Giovanni Tallini;Zubair W. Baloch

  • BRAF Mutations in Thyroid Tumors Are Restricted to Papillary Carcinomas and Anaplastic or Poorly Differentiated Carcinomas Arising from Papillary Carcinomas

    Marina N. Nikiforova;Edna Teruko Kimura;Manoj Gandhi;Paul W. Biddinger

  • Molecular genetics and diagnosis of thyroid cancer

    Yuri E. Nikiforov;Marina N. Nikiforova

  • American Thyroid Association Guidelines for Management of Patients with Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer

    Robert C. Smallridge;Kenneth B. Ain;Kenneth B. Ain;Sylvia L. Asa;Sylvia L. Asa;Keith C. Bible

  • Impact of Mutational Testing on the Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Cytologically Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules: A Prospective Analysis of 1056 FNA Samples

    Yuri E. Nikiforov;N. Paul Ohori;Steven P. Hodak;Sally E. Carty

  • RAS Point Mutations and PAX8-PPARγ Rearrangement in Thyroid Tumors: Evidence for Distinct Molecular Pathways in Thyroid Follicular Carcinoma

    Marina N. Nikiforova;Roy A. Lynch;Paul W. Biddinger;Erik K. Alexander

  • Molecular Testing for Mutations in Improving the Fine-Needle Aspiration Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules

    Yuri E. Nikiforov;David L. Steward;Toni M. Robinson-Smith;Bryan R. Haugen

  • Distinct pattern of ret oncogene rearrangements in morphological variants of radiation-induced and sporadic thyroid papillary carcinomas in children.

    Yuri E. Nikiforov;Jon M. Rowland;Kevin E. Bove;Hector Monforte-Munoz

  • MicroRNA Expression Profiling of Thyroid Tumors: Biological Significance and Diagnostic Utility

    Marina N. Nikiforova;George C. Tseng;David Steward;Donna Diorio

  • Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma: the Turin proposal for the use of uniform diagnostic criteria and an algorithmic diagnostic approach.

    Marco Volante;Paola Collini;Yuri E. Nikiforov;Atsuhiko Sakamoto

  • Correlation between genetic alterations and microscopic features, clinical manifestations, and prognostic characteristics of thyroid papillary carcinomas.

    Adebowale J. Adeniran;Zhaowen Zhu;Manoj Gandhi;David L. Steward

  • RET/PTC rearrangement in thyroid tumors.

    Yuri E Nikiforov

  • Proximity of Chromosomal Loci That Participate in Radiation-Induced Rearrangements in Human Cells

    Marina N. Nikiforova;James R. Stringer;Ruthann Blough;Mario Medvedovic

  • Oncogenic AKAP9-BRAF fusion is a novel mechanism of MAPK pathway activation in thyroid cancer.

    Raffaele Ciampi;Jeffrey A. Knauf;Roswitha Kerler;Manoj Gandhi

  • Highly accurate diagnosis of cancer in thyroid nodules with follicular neoplasm/suspicious for a follicular neoplasm cytology by ThyroSeq v2 next-generation sequencing assay.

    Yuri E. Nikiforov;Sally E. Carty;Simon I. Chiosea;Christopher Coyne

  • Targeted Expression of BRAFV600E in Thyroid Cells of Transgenic Mice Results in Papillary Thyroid Cancers that Undergo Dedifferentiation

    Jeffrey A. Knauf;Xiaolan Ma;Eric P. Smith;Lei Zhang

  • Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing Panel (ThyroSeq) for Detection of Mutations in Thyroid Cancer

    Marina N. Nikiforova;Abigail I. Wald;Somak Roy;Mary Beth Durso

Frequent Co-Authors

Marina N. Nikiforova
Marina N. Nikiforova University of Pittsburgh
Raja R. Seethala
Raja R. Seethala University of Pittsburgh
James A. Fagin
James A. Fagin Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Robert L. Ferris
Robert L. Ferris University of Pittsburgh
Zubair W. Baloch
Zubair W. Baloch University of Pennsylvania
Thomas J. Giordano
Thomas J. Giordano University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ricardo V. Lloyd
Ricardo V. Lloyd University of Wisconsin–Madison
Fulvio Basolo
Fulvio Basolo University of Pisa
Virginia A. LiVolsi
Virginia A. LiVolsi University of Pennsylvania
Sylvia L. Asa
Sylvia L. Asa Case Western Reserve University

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