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Circulating tumor cells: the substrate of personalized medicine?

Bryan T Greene1, Andrew D Hughes, Michael R King

  • 1BioCytics, Inc. Huntersville, NC, USA.

Frontiers in Oncology
|July 12, 2012
PubMed

Keywords:
EpCAMcirculating tumor cellsleukapheresisleukopakselectins

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