Article: Researchers at University of London, Imperial College have published new data on breast cancer.(Report)

According to a study from London, the United Kingdom, "The purpose of this study was to determine whether primary breast cancer patients showed evidence of circulating tumour cells (CTCs) during follow-up as an alternative to monitoring disseminated bone marrow tumour cells (DTCs) by immunocytochemistry and reverse transcriptase (RT)-PCR for the detection of micrometastases. We planned to compare CTC and DTC frequency in low-risk and high-risk patients."

"We identified two cohorts of primary breast cancer patients who were at low (group II, T1N0, n = 18) or high (group III, >3 nodes positive (with one exception, a patient with two positive nodes) n = 33) risk of ...

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