Filtration based assessment of CTCs and CellSearch based assessment are both powerful predictors of prognosis for metastatic breast cancer patients.
Huebner H, Fasching PA, Gumbrecht W, Jud S, Rauh C, Matzas M, Paulicka P, Friedrich K, Lux MP, Volz B, Gass P, Häberle L, Meier-Stiegen F, Hartkopf A, Neubauer H, Almstedt K, Beckmann MW, Fehm TN, Ruebner M.
Huebner H, et al.
BMC Cancer. 2018 Feb 20;18(1):204. doi: 10.1186/s12885-018-4115-1.
BMC Cancer. 2018.
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Overall survival (OS) was calculated and Kaplan-Meier curves were estimated with thresholds of 1 and 5 detected CTCs. RESULTS: The CTC positivity rate of the CellSearch system was 56.7% and of the filtration-based platform 66.7%. ...The median OS of patients with …
Overall survival (OS) was calculated and Kaplan-Meier curves were estimated with thresholds of 1 and 5 detected CTCs. RESULTS: The …