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Molecular determinants of occult metastatic tumor cells in bone marrow.
Clinical breast cancer - 1 Oct 2001
Pantel K, Braun S
Abstract excerpt
The success of mammographic screening for breast cancer is that it involves increasingly more patients with small primary tumors formerly thought to have an overall excellent prognosis. Yet, only approximately two thirds of these patients actually have this favorable prognosis, while the remaining third develops metastatic disease. Thus, there is emerging evidence that epithelial tumor cells can disseminate into...
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