CTCs hemodialysis: Can it be a new therapy for breast cancer?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 99-101

  Wang, Xuefei ^a   Sun, Qiang ^a   Mao, Feng ^a   Shen, Songjie ^a   Huang, Likun ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER THERAPY; CELL SIZE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING;

EID: 84870908753     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2012.06.025     Document Type: Article

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