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From: Circulating and disseminated tumor cells from breast cancer patient-derived xenograft-bearing mice as a novel model to study metastasis

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Prognostic value of the four-gene profile of BC PDXs associated with CTC clusters and LM. Four genes were found to overlap between two genetic signatures of primary tumor associated with CTC clusters and with lung metastases (LMs). Gene-expression profiles of human BCs were each scored for this signature (the score representing the values of the “high” genes minus the values of the “low” genes). Kaplan-Meier curves compare distant metastasis-free survival in BC patients with relatively higher signature scoring versus those with lower scoring. Univariate Cox evaluates the gene-signature score as a continuous variable. Patient data were extracted from publicly available datasets [28].

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