Incidence and prognostic value of tumour cells detected by RT-PCR in peripheral blood stem cell collections from patients with Ewing tumour

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1326-1333

  Vermeulen, J ^a   Ballet, S ^a   Oberlin, O ^b   Peter, M ^a   Pierron, G ^a   Longavenne, E ^a   Laurence, V ^a   Kanold, J ^c   Chastagner, P ^d   Lejars, O ^e   Blay, J Y ^f   Marec Berard, P ^g   Michon, J ^a   Delattre, O ^a   Schleiermacher, G ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d HÔPITAL D ENFANTS   (France)

^e Centre de Pediatrie Clocheville   (France)

^f EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

^g CENTRE LÉON BÉRARD   (France)

Author keywords

Ewing tumour; Outcome; PBSC; RT PCR; Tumour cell contamination

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD34; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BONE MARROW NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL MOBILIZATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKAPHERESIS; MALE; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SARCOMA, EWING'S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33751058627     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603438     Document Type: Article

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