Isolated Tumor Cells in Bone Marrow Three Years after Diagnosis in Disease-Free Breast Cancer Patients Predict Unfavorable Clinical Outcome1
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- 15 August 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Clinical Cancer Research
- Vol. 10 (16), 5342-5348
- https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-04-0245
Abstract
Purpose: The aim of the study was to explore the value of analyzing bone marrow (BM) for the presence of isolated tumor cell(s) (ITCs) in disease-free breast cancer patients 3 years after diagnosis.Keywords
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