Breast Cancer Research

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Detection and characterization of circulating tumor cells in blood of primary breast cancer patients by RT-PCR and comparison to status of bone marrow disseminated cells

Tanja Fehm*, Oliver Hoffmann, Bahriye Aktas, Sven Becker, Erich F Solomayer, Diethelm Wallwiener, Rainer Kimmig and Sabine Kasimir-Bauer

Breast Cancer Research 2009, 11:R59 doi:10.1186/bcr2349

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Expression of stem cell and epithelial-mesenchymal transition markers in primary breast cancer patients with circulating tumor cells

Sabine Kasimir-Bauer, Oliver Hoffmann, Diethelm Wallwiener, Rainer Kimmig, Tanja Fehm Breast Cancer Research 2012, 14:R15 (20 January 2012)

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"A novel in vivo model for the study of human breast cancer metastasis using primary breast tumor-initiating cells from patient biopsies"

Carolyn G Marsden, Mary Wright, Latonya Carrier, Krzysztof Moroz, Radhika Pochampally, Brian G Rowan BMC Cancer 2012, 12:10 (10 January 2012)

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Clinical relevance and biology of circulating tumor cells

Natalia Bednarz-Knoll, Catherine Alix-Panabières, Klaus Pantel Breast Cancer Research 2011, 13:228 (1 November 2011)

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Minimal residual disease and circulating tumor cells in breast cancer

Michail Ignatiadis, Monica Reinholz Breast Cancer Research 2011, 13:222 (25 October 2011)

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The prognostic significance of tumour cell detection in the peripheral blood versus the bone marrow in 733 early-stage breast cancer patients

Timothy J Molloy, Astrid J Bosma, Lars O Baumbusch, Marit Synnestvedt, Elin Borgen, Hege Russnes, Ellen Schlichting, Laura J van't Veer, Bjørn Naume Breast Cancer Research 2011, 13:R61 (14 June 2011)

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What's new on circulating tumor cells? A meeting report

Evi S Lianidou, Dimitris Mavroudis, Georgia Sotiropoulou, Sophia Agelaki, Klaus Pantel Breast Cancer Research 2010, 12:307 (23 July 2010)

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Association between the spread of circulating tumor cells and breast cancer subtypes

Xiaowei Qi, Xinhua Yang, Linjun Fan, Yi Zhang, Fan Zhang, Jun Jiang Breast Cancer Research 2010, 12:402 (17 June 2010)

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Clinical relevance and current challenges of research on disseminating tumor cells in cancer patients

Sabine Riethdorf, Klaus Pantel Breast Cancer Research 2009, 11(Suppl 3):S10 (18 December 2009)

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Circulating tumor cells in blood of primary breast cancer patients assessed by a novel RT-PCR test kit and comparison with status of bone marrow-disseminated tumor cells

Manfred Schmitt, John A Foekens Breast Cancer Research 2009, 11:109 (9 October 2009)