Circulating tumor cells in prostate cancer

Cancers

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1676-1690

  Hu, Brian ^a   Rochefort, Holly ^a   Goldkorn, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Circulating tumor cell; Personalized medicine; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; TUMOR MARKER;

ADVANCED CANCER; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASTRATION RESISTANT PROSTATE CANCER; CELL ASSAY; CELL COUNT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; METASTASIS; ONCOGENE; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84889762593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cancers5041676     Document Type: Review

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