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Perioperative circulating tumor cell detection: Current perspectives.
Cancer biology & therapy - 2 Aug 2016
Kaifi Jussuf T, Li Guangfu, Clawson Gary, Kimchi Eric T, Staveley-O'Carroll Kevin F
Abstract excerpt
Primary cancer resections and in selected cases surgical metastasectomies significantly improve survival, however many patients develop recurrences. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) function as an independent marker that could be used in the prognostication of different cancers. Sampling of blood and bone marrow compartments during cancer resections is a unique opportunity to increase individual tumor cell capture...
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