ANGPTL2 and thyroid cancer: Online survival analysis using the thyroid cancer database in K-M Plotter demonstrated that the survival time for patients with high ANGPTL2 mRNA level were significantly less than the patients with low ANGPTL2 mRNA level [log-rank test, p < 0.05; hazard ratio (HR), 2.65; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.97–7.21] (Fig. 6c).