A headlight on liquid biopsies: a challenging tool for breast cancer management

Tumor Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 4263-4273

  Massihnia, Daniela ^a   Perez, Alessandro ^a   Bazan, Viviana ^a   Bronte, Giuseppe ^a   Castiglia, Marta ^a   Fanale, Daniele ^a   Barraco, Nadia ^a   Cangemi, Antonina ^a   Di Piazza, Florinda ^a   Calò, Valentina ^a   Rizzo, Sergio ^a   Cicero, Giuseppe ^a   Pantuso, Gianni ^a   Russo, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Circulating tumor cells; Circulating tumor DNA; CTCs; ctDNA; Liquid biopsy

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATING TUMOR DNA; DNA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; TUMOR MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIQUID BIOPSY; MUTATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME; BIOPSY; BLOOD; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING;

EID: 84954519088     PISSN: 10104283     EISSN: 14230380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13277-016-4856-x     Document Type: Review

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