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Immunodiagnosis and immunotherapy of isolated tumor cells disseminated to bone marrow of patients with colorectal cancer.
Tumori - 1 Jan 2000
Braun S, Pantel K
Abstract excerpt
Micrometastatic spread of viable carcinoma cells is thought to be the leading cause of death in patients with completely resectable colorectal cancer. Since this minimal spread is missed by current tumor staging procedures, immunocytochemistry with monoclonal antibodies to epithelial cytokeratins have been successfully applied to detect individual carcinoma cells disseminated to mesenchymal organs such as bone...
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