All cancer staging systems seek to identify clinical and pathological features that can predict outcome or guide therapy. In particular, a non-invasive method for the early detection of disseminating disease would be of great interest. We investigated the use of cytokeratin genes expression to detec
Molecular detection of disseminated tumor cells in the peripheral blood in patients with gastrointestinal cancer
β Scribed by Peilin Huang; Jingmei Wang; Ying Guo; Wei Xie
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 293 KB
- Volume
- 129
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1432-1335
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