Short-term expansion of breast circulating cancer cells predicts response to anti-cancer therapy

Oncotarget

Volumn 6, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 15578-15593

  Khoo, Bee Luan ^a   Lee, Soo Chin ^b,c   Kumar, Prashant ^d   Tan, Tuan Zea ^c   Warkiani, Majid Ebrahimi ^e,f   Ow, Samuel G W ^b   Nandi, Sayantani ^d   Lim, Chwee Teck ^d,e,g   Thiery, Jean Paul ^c,d,h  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^e SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^h NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Circulating tumor cells; CTCs; Enrichment

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; KERATIN; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; SUNITINIB; TUMOR MARKER;

BLOOD; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MCF-7 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR CELL CULTURE; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; INDOLES; KERATINS; MCF-7 CELLS; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING; PYRROLES; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 84934323716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.3903     Document Type: Article

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