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Analysis of circulating tumor cells in patients with triple negative breast cancer during preoperative chemotherapy.
Bulletin of experimental biology and medicine - 1 May 2014
Lavrov A V, Zubtsova Zh I, Zubtsov D A, Frolova M A, Ignatova E O, Skrypnikova M A, Malysheva E V, Legchenko E V, Petrovskii A V, Utyashev I A, Tyulyandin S A, Gol'dshtein D V
Abstract excerpt
The presence of circulating tumor cells in the blood of patients with triple negative breast cancer (early and locally advanced cancer) before and after preoperative chemotherapy was assessed using expression markers. Before therapy, circulating tumor cells were detected in 5 of 13 (38%) patients with early cancer and in 7 of 17 (41.2%) patients with locally advanced cancer. After therapy, the circulating immune...
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