Circulating tumor cells and sample size: The more, the better

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 28, Issue 17, 2010, Pages

  Lalmahomed, Zarina S ^a   Kraan, Jaco ^a   Gratama, Jan W ^a   Mostert, Bianca ^a   Sleijfer, Stefan ^a   Verhoef, Cornelis ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; CIRCULATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; LETTER; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER RESECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TUMOR CELL; BLOOD; COLORECTAL TUMOR; FEMALE; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 77956404316     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2010.28.2764     Document Type: Letter

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