Breast Cancer Research

Table 2 Number of double-stained CTCs/250,000 PBMCs in early and metastatic breast cancer patients^a

From: Epithelial to mesenchymal transition markers expressed in circulating tumour cells of early and metastatic breast cancer patients

Early breast cancer					Metastatic breast cancer
Patient	Vim⁺CK⁺	Vim^-CK⁺	Twist⁺CK⁺	Twist^-CK⁺	Patient	Vim⁺CK⁺	Vim^-CK⁺	Twist⁺CK⁺	Twist^-CK⁺
1	64	51	83	100	1	5	0	4	0
2	25	63	29	142	2	45	0	8	0
3	31	111	578	68	3	21	0	7	0
4	35	28	53	85	4	2	0	4	0
5	135	199	18	134	5	74	20	45	0
6	100	158	28	170	6	7	7	3	6
7	170	254	89	423	7	7	2	420	0
8	0	0	74	4	8	21	69	2	0
9	0	1	71	95	9	10	90	3	0
10	140	4	0	1	10	2	0	2	0
11	22	0	0	0	11	3	15	103	36
12	17	0	74	88	12	67	3	9	1
13	0	4	8	0	13	4	0	0	0
14	0	0	0	3	14	3	3	42	0
15	7	1	0	4	15	1	0	1	0
16	10	3	12	0	16	1	0	1	0
17	0	0	0	0	17	10	2	55	0
18	28	12	0	0	18	325	97	5	7
19	0	0	0	10	19	17	1	13	0
20	0	1	2	0	20	3	0	0	0
21	2	0	13	0	21	2	0	2	0
22	2	0	0	9	22	2	1	2	0
23	306	0	380	0	23	9	0	658	0
24	1	0	0	2	24	192	4	44	0
25	24	0	1	0	25	40	0	80	0

^aCTCs = circulating tumour cells; PBMCs = peripheral blood mononuclear cells; Vim = vimentin; CK = cytokeratin.

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