## Detection of circulating tumor cells in the peripheral blood of patients with androgen-independent, advanced or metastatic prostate cancer To the Editor: The presence of circulating tumor cells (CTC) in the peripheral blood of cancer patients has attracted a great deal of attention among invest
Detection of circulating tumor cells in peripheral blood of heavily treated metastatic breast cancer patients
β Scribed by Nahomi Tokudome; Yoshinori Ito; Shunji Takahashi; Kokoro Kobayashi; Shinichiro Taira; Chizuko Tsutsumi; Masafumi Oto; Masaru Oba; Kenichi Inoue; Akiko Kuwayama; Kyoko Masumura; Yoshie Nakayama; Chie Watanabe; Kiyohiko Hatake
- Book ID
- 107643841
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 463 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1340-6868
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