Circulating tumour cells escape from EpCAM-based detection due to epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition

BackgroundCirculating tumour cells (CTCs) have shown prognostic relevance in metastatic breast, prostate, colon and pancreatic cancer. For further development of CTCs as a biomarker, we compared the performance of different protocols for CTC detection in murine breast cancer xenograft models (MDA-MB... View More