Friday 15 June 2012

Stage I Breast Cancer-Primary Tumor-Cancer Cells

Circulating Tumor Cells May Predict Recurrence Risk

Suppose your doctor could tell whether your Stage I breast cancer was likely to metastasize?  What if your oncologist could monitor the response of your cancer to chemotherapy? A new study about circulating tumor cells is bringing that day closer.  Doctors have known for decades that cancer cells can break off from a primary tumor and travel to a different part of the body.  They understood that the bloodstream is the... read more..

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