With $375,000 in funding from Susan G. Komen, the largest nonprofit funder of breast cancer research (outside of the U.S. government), and other financial support, Dr. Sparano and team at the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group found that the presence of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) five years after diagnosis was a strong indicator of whether a patient would experience a breast cancer recurrence.
December 8, 2017
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