Open AccessCirculating Tumor Cells Dynamics in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Correlate With Disease Status
Author(s) -
Georgios Gemenetzis,
Vincent P. Groot,
Jun Yu,
Ding Ding,
Jonathan A. Teinor,
Ammar A. Javed,
Laura D. Wood,
Richard A. Burkhart,
John L. Cameron,
Martin A. Makary,
Matthew J. Weiss,
Jin He,
Christopher L. Wolfgang
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/sla.0000000000002925
Subject(s) - medicine , circulating tumor cell , oncology , prospective cohort study , neoadjuvant therapy , pancreatic cancer , odds ratio , localized disease , adenocarcinoma , cancer , metastasis , prostate cancer , breast cancer
Previous retrospective studies demonstrated that circulating tumor cells (CTCs) subtypes correlate with overall survival in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Herein, we report results of a prospective observational study on CTCs dynamics to assess their clinical significance.