Pooled Analysis of the Prognostic Relevance of Circulating Tumor Cells in Primary Breast Cancer

2016362 citationsJournal Articlebronze Open Access

Authors

Wolfgang Janni · University Hospital Ulm

Brigitte Rack · Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Leon W.M.M. Terstappen · University of Twente

Jean‐Yves Pierga · Délégation Paris 5

Florin‐Andrei Taran · STZ eyetrial

Tanja Fehm · Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Carolyn Hall ·

Abstract

In patients with primary breast cancer, the presence of CTCs was an independent predictor of poor disease-free, overall, breast cancer-specific, and distant disease-free survival. Clin Cancer Res; 22(10); 2583-93. ©2016 AACR.

Topics & Keywords

Cancer Cells and Metastasis Metastasis and carcinoma case studies Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics

UN Sustainable Development Goals

No poverty

Publication Details

Published in: Clinical Cancer Research

Volume 22, Issue 10, pp. 2583-2593

DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-15-1603

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