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Article: Circulating tumor cells in blood indicate more aggressive disease.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- September 9, 2004
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2004 SEP 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Patients with advanced breast cancer who have more than five circulating tumor cells in the blood may have a more dangerous form of the disease, according to oncologists at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
The pivotal study, published in the August 19, 2004, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, could lead to more tailored treatments that would spare some women from the most potent chemotherapy, or, conversely, recognize which patients need more aggressive therapy at the start of treatment, says the study's lead author Massimo Cristofanilli, MD, associate professor in the Cancer Center's ...