Potential role of circulating tumor cell detection and monitoring in breast cancer: a review of current evidence

The phenomenon of hematogenous tumor cell dissemination in patients with solid tumors has been extensively explored over the last decades. Breast cancer research investigated at first disseminated tumor cells (DTCs) in the bone marrow; however, the focus soon moved to circulating tumor cells (CTCs)...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Oncology
Main Authors:	Malgorzata Banys-Paluchowski, Natalia Krawczyk, Tanja Fehm
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-12-01
Subjects:	breast cancer biomarkers prognosis circulating tumor cell disseminated tumor cell
Online Access:	http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fonc.2016.00255/full