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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Lu YJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5430457 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20170419 1
Detecting circulating tumour cells (CTCs) is considered as effective and minimally invasive technique to predict the prognosis of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC), but its clinical validity is still conflicting in patients without metastasis. We performed this meta-analysis to evaluate whether detection of CTCs in the peripheral blood can be used as a prognostic marker for patients with non-metastatic CRC. We performed a comprehensive search of the EMBASE, PubMed, and Web of Scie ...[more]