Circulating tumor cells: the 'leukemic phase' of solid cancers.

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Published in Trends Mol Med on February 20, 2006

Authors

Simone Mocellin1, Ulrich Keilholz, Carlo Riccardo Rossi, Donato Nitti

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Oncological and Surgical Sciences, University of Padova, via Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padova, Italy. mocellins@hotmail.com

Associated clinical trials:

Prognostic Value of the Levels of CTCs in Peripheral Blood in Patients With Prostate Cancer at High Risk (Clinical Stages IIB-III) Treated Radically With Radiotherapy and Hormone Therapy. | NCT01800058

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