Arterial Blood, Rather Than Venous Blood, is a Better Source for Circulating Melanoma Cells

Arterial Blood, Rather Than Venous Blood, is a Better Source for Circulating Melanoma Cells

Background: CTCs provide prognostic information and their application is under investigation in multiple tumor types. Of the multiple variables inherent in any such process, none is more important to outcome than the appropriateness of the sample source. To address this question, we investigated CTC...

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Main Authors: Mizue Terai, Zhaomei Mu, David J. Eschelman, Carin F. Gonsalves, Ken Kageyama, Inna Chervoneva, Marlana Orloff, Ryan Weight, Michael J. Mastrangelo, Massimo Cristofanilli, Takami Sato
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-11-01
Series:EBioMedicine
Subjects:
Uveal melanoma
Circulating tumor cells
Hepatic metastasis
Arterial venous
Peripheral venous
CTC count***
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396415301389

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