Minimal Residual Disease and Circulating Tumor Cells in Breast Cancer

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ignatiadis, Michail (Editor), Sotiriou, Christos (Editor), Pantel, Klaus (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Recent Results in Cancer Research, 195
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Gynecology.; Oncology.; Pathology.; Surgical oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Oncology.; Cancer Research.

Most deaths from carcinomas are caused by the hematogenous dissemination of cancer cells to distant organs and the eventual development of metastases. When found in the bone marrow or peripheral blood of carcinoma patients, occult cancer cells are referred to as disseminated tumor cells (DTCs) or ci...