Circulating tumor cells: a valuable marker of poor prognosis for advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Abstract Purpose To evaluate the prognostic value of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Methods Cox’s proportional hazards regression models were used to identify whether CTCs was a poor prognostic factor for NPC. Chi-square tests were used to analyze and compare the d...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Guoping Ou, Shan Xing, Jianpei Li, Lin Zhang, Shulin Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-11-01
Series:Molecular Medicine
Subjects:
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s10020-019-0112-3