Circulating Tumor Cells and Prognosis of Patients with Resectable Colorectal Liver Metastases or Widespread Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: A Meta-Analysis

[1]  S. Matsusaka,et al.  Circulating tumor cells as a surrogate marker for determining response to chemotherapy in Japanese patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. , 2012, Journal of Clinical Oncology.

[2]  F. Saliba,et al.  Impact of Expanding Criteria for Resectability of Colorectal Metastases on Short- and Long-Term Outcomes After Hepatic Resection , 2011, Annals of surgery.

[3]  M. Koch,et al.  Correlation of Circulating Angiogenic Factors with Circulating Tumor Cells and Disease Recurrence in Patients Undergoing Curative Resection for Colorectal Liver Metastases , 2011, Annals of Surgical Oncology.

[4]  R. Weinberg,et al.  A Perspective on Cancer Cell Metastasis , 2011, Science.

[5]  R. Iacovelli,et al.  Molecular markers in circulating tumour cells from metastatic colorectal cancer patients , 2010, Journal of cellular and molecular medicine.

[6]  R. Zeillinger,et al.  Circulating tumor cells in metastatic colorectal cancer: efficacy and feasibility of different enrichment methods. , 2010, Cancer letters.

[7]  Thomas Seufferlein,et al.  Targeted treatments in colorectal cancer: state of the art and future perspectives , 2010, Gut.

[8]  M. Koch,et al.  Meta-analysis shows that detection of circulating tumor cells indicates poor prognosis in patients with colorectal cancer. , 2010, Gastroenterology.

[9]  I. Nagtegaal,et al.  Circulating tumour cells early predict progression-free and overall survival in advanced colorectal cancer patients treated with chemotherapy and targeted agents. , 2010, Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology.

[10]  H. Tanke,et al.  Clinical impact of different detection methods for disseminated tumor cells in bone marrow of patients undergoing surgical resection of colorectal liver metastases: a prospective follow-up study , 2010, BMC Cancer.

[11]  J. Nemunaitis,et al.  Circulating Tumor Cells in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Hepatic Metastases from Colorectal Cancer , 2010, Proceedings.

[12]  Jaw-Yuan Wang,et al.  Detection of KRAS Oncogene in Peripheral Blood as a Predictor of the Response to Cetuximab Plus Chemotherapy in Patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer , 2009, Clinical Cancer Research.

[13]  C. Punt,et al.  Prognostic significance of circulating tumor cells in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. , 2009, Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology.

[14]  M. Choti,et al.  Urgent need for a new staging system in advanced colorectal cancer. , 2008, Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

[15]  M. Kitajima,et al.  Clinical Significance of Circulating Tumor Cells in Blood from Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancers , 2008, Annals of Surgical Oncology.

[16]  S. Digumarthy,et al.  Isolation of rare circulating tumour cells in cancer patients by microchip technology , 2007, Nature.

[17]  C. Denlinger,et al.  Progress in the Development of Prognostic and Predictive Markers for Gastrointestinal Malignancies , 2007, Current treatment options in oncology.

[18]  M. Sydes,et al.  Practical methods for incorporating summary time-to-event data into meta-analysis , 2007, Trials.

[19]  L. Weiner,et al.  Isolation and characterization of circulating tumor cells in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. , 2006, Clinical colorectal cancer.

[20]  S. Seeber,et al.  Tumor cell dissemination in colon cancer does not predict extrahepatic recurrence in patients undergoing surgery for hepatic metastases. , 2006, Oncology reports.

[21]  M. Koch,et al.  Detection of hematogenous tumor cell dissemination predicts tumor relapse in patients undergoing surgical resection of colorectal liver metastases , 2005, European Surgery.

[22]  M. Koch,et al.  Detection of disseminated tumour cells as a potential surrogate-marker for monitoring palliative chemotherapy in colorectal cancer patients. , 2004, Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR.

[23]  T. Wobbes,et al.  Detection of disseminated tumour cells in blood and bone marrow samples of patients undergoing hepatic resection for metastasis of colorectal cancer , 2003, The British journal of surgery.

[24]  S. Burchill,et al.  Detection of colorectal cancer cells in peripheral blood by reverse‐transcriptase polymerase chain reaction for cytokeratin 20 , 1998, International journal of cancer.

[25]  J. Ioannidis,et al.  The PRISMA Statement for Reporting Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Studies That Evaluate Health Care Interventions : Explanation and Elaboration , 2009 .