Sensitivity of assays designed for the detection of disseminated epithelial tumor cells is influenced by cell separation methods

MeSH terms

• Bone Marrow / pathology
• Breast Neoplasms / blood
• Breast Neoplasms / pathology
• Cell Separation
• Epithelial Cells / pathology*
• Female
• Hematopoiesis
• Humans
• Immunohistochemistry
• Intestinal Neoplasms / blood
• Intestinal Neoplasms / pathology
• Neoplastic Cells, Circulating / pathology*
• Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
• Salivary Gland Neoplasms / blood
• Salivary Gland Neoplasms / pathology
• Stem Cells / pathology
• Stomach Neoplasms / blood
• Stomach Neoplasms / pathology