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ReviewBreast care (Basel, Switzerland)2009

Clinical Relevance of Disseminated Tumor Cells in the Bone Marrow and Circulating Tumor Cells in the Blood of Breast Cancer Patients.

Volkmar Müller, Tanja Fehm, Wolfgang Janni, Gerhard Gebauer, Erich Solomayer, Klaus Pantel

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Review in Breast care (Basel, Switzerland), 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Volkmar MüllerDepartment of Gynecology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany.
Tanja FehmDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Wolfgang JanniDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Gerhard GebauerDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Erich SolomayerDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Klaus PantelInstitute of Tumor Biology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Subclinical tumor cell spread, as the putative precursor stage of subsequent solid metastases, can be assessed in breast patients via the detection of disseminated tumor cells (DTC) in bone marrow aspirates or circulating tumor cells (CTC) in the peripheral blood with immunocytochemical and molecular techniques. In the context of a growing number of treatment strategies for cancer patients in the adjuvant setting as well as in the metastatic situation, markers predicting therapy efficacy are urgently needed. The detection of DTC or CTC may become one of the most interesting parameters not just for the prediction of survival or therapy monitoring but also for the characterization and specific targeting of residual tumor cells. Progress in this field now permits clinical studies that should lead to improvements in the treatment of breast cancer patients.

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BloodBone marrowBreast cancerCirculating tumor cellsDisseminated tumor cells

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PMID30397407
PMCPMC6206975

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