Elevation in peripheral blood circulating tumor cell number correlates with macroscopic progression in UICC stage IV colorectal cancer patients

Disease Markers

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 141-150

  Molnar, Bela ^a,b   Floro, Lajos ^a   Sipos, Ferenc ^a   Toth, Bernadett ^a   Sreter, Lydia ^a   Tulassay, Zsolt ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Second Department of Medicine   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Circulating tumor cells; CK 20 RT PCR; Colorectal cancer; Microscopic counting; Progression

Indexed keywords

CA 19-9 ANTIGEN; CA 72-4 ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CYTOKERATIN 20; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; TISSUE POLYPEPTIDE ANTIGEN; TISSUE POLYPEPTIDE ANTIGEN M; MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER STAGING; CELL COUNT; CELL ISOLATION; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR CELL; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DISEASE COURSE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

ADULT; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 44449086506     PISSN: 02780240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2008/941509     Document Type: Article

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