Molecular Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells in the Peripheral Blood of Patients with Colorectal Cancer Using RT‐PCR: Significance of the Prediction of Postoperative Metastasis

Background Approximately 20%–45% of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients ultimately develop local recurrence or metastasis following curative surgical resection. The latter is caused by tumor cells shed from the primary carcinoma prior to or during operation, currently undetected by standard clinical st...

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