Open AccessUse of Rt-PCR in detecting disseminated cancer cells after incisional biopsy among oral squamous cell carcinoma patients
Author(s) -
Pratibha Ramani,
George V. Thomas,
Shaheen Ahmed
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.16708
Subject(s) - biopsy , metastasis , medicine , cancer , malignancy , cytokeratin , pathology , population , carcinoma , cancer cell , immunohistochemistry , environmental health
Tumour metastasis is the most clinically significant and enigmatic aspect of tumour behavior and is an unequivocal hallmark of malignancy. Until recent years little has been known about the transportation phase of vascular dissemination during biopsy, because of the technical difficulties in demonstrating circulating cancer cells.