Response of circulating tumor cells to systemic therapy in patients with metastatic breast cancer: Comparison of quantitative polymerase chain reaction and immunocytochemical techniques

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1432-1439

  Smith, Brendan M ^a   Slade, Martin J ^a   English, Jacqueline ^a   Graham, Helen ^a   Lüchtenborg, Margreet ^a   Sinnett, H Dudley ^a   Cross, Nicholas C P ^a   Coombes, R Charles ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; FORMESTANE; METHOTREXATE; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CYTOLOGY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INHIBITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; METASTASIS; METASTASIS INHIBITION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034034257     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2000.18.7.1432     Document Type: Article

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