The staging of colorectal cancer currently depends on pathological examination of the surgical specimen and regional lymph nodes, accompanied by imaging tests such as computed tomography (CT) scanning. However, alternative molecular methods to detect circulating tumour cells in blood or bone marrow
Detection of tumor cells in the portal and peripheral blood of patients with colorectal carcinoma using competitive reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction
β Scribed by Sotaro Sadahiro; Toshiyuki Suzuki; Nobuhiro Tokunaga; Satoshi Yurimoto; Seiei Yasuda; Tomoo Tajima; Hiroyasu Makuuchi; Chieko Murayama; Koichiro Matsuda
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 92 KB
- Volume
- 92
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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