The promise of circulating tumor cell analysis in cancer management

Genome Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Mateo, Joaquin ^a,b   Gerlinger, Marco ^a,b   Rodrigues, Daniel Nava ^a,b   De Bono, Johann S ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 85027926044     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-014-0448-5     Document Type: Review

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