CTCs adds prognostic marker in metastatic breast cancer at first-line chemotherapy

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A high level of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) - cells that have detached from a tumor and are circulating in the body through the blood - are an independent prognostic marker in metastatic breast cancer as first-line therapy.

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