Circulating tumor cells as therapy-related biomarkers in cancer patients

Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 931-939

  Gorges, Tobias M ^a   Pantel, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Cancer; CTCs; DTCs; EMT; Metastasis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ERLOTINIB; GEFITINIB;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; COLON CANCER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE MARKER; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HUMAN; LIQUID BIOPSY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NANODEVICE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR BIOPSY;

BIOPSY; CARCINOMA; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 84877840356     PISSN: 03407004     EISSN: 14320851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00262-012-1387-1     Document Type: Review

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