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Cellular proliferation and prevalence of micrometastatic cells in the bone marrow of patients with clinically localized prostate cancer.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Sept 1999
Cher M L, de Oliveira J G, Beaman A A, Nemeth J A, Hussain M, Wood D P
Abstract excerpt
The presence of prostate cancer cells in the bone marrow (BM) of patients with clinically localized disease is associated with an increased chance of disease recurrence; however, not all patients develop recurrence. We therefore sought to determine the phenotype of individual micrometastatic cells as a potential method to better predict disease outcome. Immunostaining was performed on BM cells from 46 patients...
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