The significance of circulating epithelial cells in Breast Cancer patients by a novel negative selection method

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 355-364

  Tkaczuk, Katherine H Rak ^a   Goloubeva, Olga ^a   Tait, Nancy S ^a   Feldman, Faye ^a   Tan, Ming ^a   Lum, Zhao Ping ^b   Lesko, Stephen A ^b   Van Echo, David A ^b   Ts'o, Paul O P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b CCC Diagnostics LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Association of numbers of epithelial cells with survival; Breast Cancer; Circulating epithelial cells; Negative selection method; Prospective blood sampling study; Stage 1 4

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL SELECTION; CIRCULATING EPITHELIAL CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 48149092807     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-007-9771-9     Document Type: Article

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