Monitoring the response of circulating epithelial tumor cells to adjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer allows detection of patients at risk of early relapse.
@article{Pachmann2008MonitoringTR, title={Monitoring the response of circulating epithelial tumor cells to adjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer allows detection of patients at risk of early relapse.}, author={Katharina Pachmann and Oumar Camara and Andreas Kavallaris and Sabine Krauspe and Nele Malarski and Mieczyslaw R. Gajda and Torsten Kroll and Cornelia J{\"o}rke and Ulrike Hammer and A. Altendorf-Hofmann and Carola Rabenstein and Ulrich A. Pachmann and Ingo Bernhard Runnebaum and Klaus H{\"o}ffken}, journal={Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology}, year={2008}, volume={26 8}, pages={ 1208-15 } }
PURPOSE
To demonstrate that it is possible to monitor the response to adjuvant therapy by repeated analysis of circulating epithelial tumor cells (CETCs) and to detect patients early who are at risk of relapse.
PATIENTS AND METHODS
In 91 nonmetastatic primary breast cancer patients, CETCs were quantified using laser scanning cytometry of anti-epithelial cell adhesion molecule-stained epithelial cells from whole unseparated blood before and during adjuvant chemotherapy.
RESULTS
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