Prostate Biopsy Sampling Causes Hematogenous Dissemination of Epithelial Cellular Material

The extent of epithelial cellular material (ECM) occurring in venous blood samples after diagnostic core needle biopsy (CNB) was studied in 23 patients with CNB diagnosed prostate cancer without provable metastases and 15 patients without cancer. The data show a significant increase of ECM in the pe...

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Main Authors: Sam Ladjevardi, Gert Auer, Juan Castro, Christer Ericsson, Anders Zetterberg, Michael Häggman, Hans Wiksell, Håkan Jorulf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Disease Markers
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/707529