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SUBMITTER: Bidard FC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5528978 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bidard Francois-Clement FC Proudhon Charlotte C Pierga Jean-Yves JY
Molecular oncology 20160112 3
Over the past decade, technically reliable circulating tumor cell (CTC) detection methods allowed the collection of large datasets of CTC counts in cancer patients. These data can be used either as a dynamic prognostic biomarker or as tumor material for "liquid biopsy". Breast cancer appears to be the cancer type in which CTC have been the most extensively studied so far, with level-of-evidence-1 studies supporting the clinical validity of CTC count in both early and metastatic stage. This revie ...[more]