Detection of circulating tumour cells from blood of breast cancer patients via RT-qPCR

Cancers

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1212-1220

  Andergassen, Ulrich ^a   Kölbl, Alexandra C ^a   Hutter, Stefan ^a   Friese, Klaus ^a   Jeschke, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Circulating tumour cell (CTC); Cytokeratin; Marker gene; QPCR; Reverse transcriptase

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; CYTOKERATIN 18; CYTOKERATIN 19; MESSENGER RNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYZER; BLOOD CELL; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL STRUCTURE; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; CYTOKERATIN 18 GENE; CYTOKERATIN 19 GENE; CYTOMETRY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MARKER GENE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MOLECULAR PROBE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIMARY TUMOR; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84884807991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers5041212     Document Type: Review

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