Comparison of hormonal receptor expression and HER2 status between circulating tumor cells and breast cancer metastases.
Solange Moraes SanchesAlexcia Camila BraunVinicius Fernando CalsavaraPaula Nicole Vieira Pinto BarbosaLudmilla Thomé Domingos ChinenPublished in: Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) (2021)
The role of CTCs detected by ISET has not yet been established in BC. Here, we suggest that this methodology may be useful to evaluate metastasis in non-TN cases as well as TGF-β RI expression in CTCs, which may impact patient survival. Due to sample limitations, future studies must focus on specific BC subtypes and an expansion of the cohort.