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Breast Cancer
Data on breast cancer detailed by researchers at University of Maryland
September 4th, 2008
According to a study from the United States, "A negative selection method for the enumeration and characterization of circulating epithelial/cancer cells (CCC) in Breast Cancer (BC) patients is described. This manual procedure yields reproducible results of high sensitivity and selectivity suitable for research laboratories." "We conducted a prospective blood sampling study in 105 women with stage 1-4 BC attending clinics at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center to define the prevalence of CCC utilizing our sensitive double gradient centrifugation and magnetic cell sorting CCC detection and enumeration method. CCC were isolated and enumerated from 15 to 20...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-09-04)
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