Breast Cancer

Circulating tumor cells detected in long-term cancer survivors

Published in Cancer Weekly, January 4th, 2005

Researchers at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have shown that some long-term breast cancer survivors may have innate mechanisms to keep breast cancer at bay.

Their findings, published in the December 2004 issue of Clinical Cancer Research and available online, show that a third of the long-time disease-free patients in the study had circulating tumor cells (CTCs). The presence of CTCs is often associated with a higher risk of recurrence if they are found soon after a mastectomy.

The UT Southwestern discovery that CTCs can be found in patients up to 20 years after mastectomy is notable because these patients have a...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2005-01-04)

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