Improved method for the detection of cytokeratin 19-positive cells in the peripheral blood of breast cancer patients

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 658-661

  Alvero, Ayesha B ^a   Burtness, Barbara A ^a   Ercan, Adife Gulhan ^b   Sapi, Eva ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Circulating tumor cells; Cytokeratin 19; Micrometastasis; Peripheral blood; Real time RT PCR

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 19; KERATIN; PRIMER DNA; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VOLUNTEER; BLOOD; BREAST TUMOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; STATISTICS; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

BASE SEQUENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 2942536817     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.3700086     Document Type: Article

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