Micrometastasis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pantel, Klaus (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2003.
• Series: Cancer Metastasis - Biology and Treatment, 5
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Hematology.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Cancer Research.

Distant metastases are the main cause of cancer-related death. The onset of the metastatic process can now be assessed in cancer patients by the use of immunocytochemical and molecular methods that allow the identification of disseminated carcinoma cells in regional lymph nodes, peripheral blood or...