CD44+ cytokeratin-positive tumor cells in blood and bone marrow are associated with poor prognosis of patients with gastric cancer.

Antoni SzczepanikMarek SierzegaGrażyna DrabikAnna Pituch-NoworolskaPiotr KołodziejczykMarek Zembala

Published in: Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association (2018)

CD44+ phenotype of cytokeratin-positive cells in blood and bone marrow is an independent prognostic factor in patients with gastric cancer.

Keyphrases

poor prognosis
bone marrow
prognostic factors
long non coding rna
mesenchymal stem cells
induced apoptosis
cell cycle arrest
nk cells
cell death