The clinical potential of circulating tumor cells; the need to incorporate a modern "immunological cocktail" in the assay.

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Published in Cancers (Basel) on December 13, 2013

Authors

Jonathan W Uhr1

Author Affiliations

1: Cancer Immunobiology Center, University Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA. jonathan.uhr@utsouthwestern.edu.

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