Tumor samples were obtained from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This study included archived Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE) samples from 20 non-neoplastic thyroids, 8 adenomatous nodules and 60 sporadic well-differentiated follicular derived thyroid cancers (DTC): 47 PTCs and 13 FTCs. Demographic information including age and sex was collected from each patient in addition to histopathologic results and tumor staging. Ethics approvals for collection and use of the patient samples were obtained from the CHOP Institutional Review Board as part of the Child and Adolescent Thyroid Consortium (CATC) Biorepository study (IRB# 20-018240).
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