Prognostic Relevance of Occult Nodal Micrometastases and Circulating Tumor Cells in Colorectal Cancer in a Prospective Multicenter Trial

Koyanagi, Kazuo; J. Bilchik, Anton; Saha, Sukamal; R. Turner, Roderick; Wiese, David; D. McCarter, Martin; Shen, Perry; Deacon, Linda; Elashoff, David; S.�B. Hoon, Dave

doi:10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-08-0290

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Prognostic Relevance of Occult Nodal Micrometastases and Circulating Tumor Cells in Colorectal Cancer in a Prospective Multicenter Trial

Published in Clinical Cancer Research • Nov 14, 2008

Authors:

Kazuo Koyanagi

Anton J. Bilchik

Sukamal Saha

Abstract

PURPOSE: Nodal micrometastasis and circulating tumor cells detected by multimarker quantitative real-time reverse transcription-PCR (qRT-PCR) may have prognostic importance in patients with colorectal cancer. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Paraffin-embedded sentinel lymph nodes from 67 patients and blood from...

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Micrometastasis

Medicine

Cytokeratin

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