New predictors of disease course

[Tom]

Clinical Cancer Research Publishes Paper Comparing CTCs to Imaging in Predicting Overall Survival in Metastatic Breast Cancer-Editorial Calls Reproducibility of CTC Assay "striking"


http://www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNews.htm?NewsID=4580&Section=DISEASE

[Bev]

Thanks, Tom, BB

[Joy]

and believe me, what I have tried to find is this: If you have an initial result over 5 ctc's per 7.5ml, but within a short time after the new therapy has begun the result is drastically lower does one still have a lousier chance for DFS and OS? Of course I ask 'cause it is my situation, but I can't be the only one. At the start of Navelbine I was a 6 and it scared the heck outta me. After 5 weeks I was a 0 which seems pretty darn good, but does it really matter given these studies I keep finding?

just curious