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- Title
Circulating tumor cells: a useful predictor of treatment efficacy in metastatic breast cancer.
- Authors
Liu, Minetta C; Shields, Peter G; Warren, Robert D; Cohen, Philip; Wilkinson, Mary; Ottaviano, Yvonne L; Rao, Suman B; Eng-Wong, Jennifer; Seillier-Moiseiwitsch, Francoise; Noone, Anne-Michelle; Isaacs, Claudine
- Abstract
Five or more circulating tumor cells (CTCs) per 7.5 mL of blood predicts for poorer progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC). We conducted a prospective study to demonstrate that CTC results correlate strongly with radiographic disease progression at the time of and in advance of imaging.
- Publication
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2009, Vol 27, Issue 31, p5153
- ISSN
1527-7755
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1200/JCO.2008.20.6664