Perioperative cancer cell dissemination detected with a real-time RT-PCR assay for EpCAM is not associated with worse prognosis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

BMC Cancer

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sergeant, Gregory ^a   Roskams, Tania ^a   van Pelt, Jos ^a   Houtmeyers, François ^a   Aerts, Raymond ^a   Topal, Baki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITHELIAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; MESSENGER RNA; TUMOR MARKER; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; EPCAM PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; METASTASIS; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS RESECTION; PERINEURIUM; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ADENOCARCINOMA; ASCITES FLUID; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SYSTEM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; ASCITIC FLUID; CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PERITONEAL LAVAGE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79251578635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-11-47     Document Type: Article

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