Counting Tumor Cells In Blood Predicts Treatment Benefit In Prostate Cancer
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 08:28
in Health & Medicine
Counting the number of tumor cells circulating in the bloodstream of patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer can accurately predict how well they are responding to treatment, new results show. Researchers showed that changes in the number of circulating tumor cells predicted the outcome after chemotherapy in this hard to treat cancer.