Imaging, Diagnosis, Prognosis Circulating Tumor Cells and EpCAM Expression in Neuroendocrine Tumors
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Purpose: Neuroendocrine tumors (NET) are heterogeneous tumors with widely variable survival. It is unknown whether they express EpCAM (epithelial cell adhesion molecule) and thus whether NET circulating tumor cells (CTC) are detectable. We systematically investigated EpCAM expression and CTC detection in patients with metastatic NETs and evaluated the potential of CTCs to predict radiological
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