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Noncolonic cancer stem cells in bone marrow of colorectal cancer patients.
Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland - 1 Mar 2010
Altomare D F, Guanti G, Hoch J, Vician M, Krivokapic Z, Bergamaschi R
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether preoperative noncolonic cancer stem cells in bone marrow (BM) of R0 colorectal cancer (CRC) patients are cancer cells and impact on liver metastases (LM) rates. METHOD: Prospective data on continuous CRC patients were collected from five centres. Bone marrow aspirates, taken at laparotomy, were sent to a single lab. Noncolonic cancer stem cells were defined according to UICC. A...
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