Heterogeneity of estrogen receptor expression in circulating tumor cells from metastatic breast cancer patients.

BACKGROUND: Endocrine treatment is the most preferable systemic treatment in metastatic breast cancer patients that have had an estrogen receptor (ER) positive primary tumor or metastatic lesions, however, approximately 20% of these patients do not benefit from the therapy and demonstrate further me...

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Main Authors: Anna Babayan, Juliane Hannemann, Julia Spötter, Volkmar Müller, Klaus Pantel, Simon A Joosse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3776726?pdf=render