Detection and molecular characterization of circulating tumour cells in patients with breast cancer. University of Antwerp
The detection of minimal disease in blood of patients with cancer is hampered by a lack of sensitivity and accuracy of the currently available tests. The availability of the real-time quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and the possibility to measure the expression of multiple genes simultaneously has initiated some change in this area. In previous research we showed a superior sensitivity of qRT-PCR for ...