François-Clément Bidard, Stefan Michiels, Sabine Riethdorf, Volkmar Mueller, Laura J Esserman, Anthony Lucci, Bjørn Naume, Jun Horiguchi, Rafael Gisbert-Criado, Stefan Sleijfer, Masakazu Toi, Jose A Garcia-Saenz, Andreas Hartkopf, Daniele Generali, Françoise Rothé, Jeffrey Smerage, Laura Muinelo-Romay, Justin Stebbing, Patrice Viens, Mark Jesus M Magbanua, Carolyn S Hall, Olav Engebraaten, Daisuke Takata, José Vidal-Martínez, Wendy Onstenk, Noriyoshi Fujisawa, Eduardo Diaz-Rubio, Florin-Andrei Taran, Maria Rosa Cappelletti, Michail Ignatiadis, Charlotte Proudhon, Denise M Wolf, Jessica B Bauldry, Elin Borgen, Rin Nagaoka, Vicente Carañana, Jaco Kraan, Marisa Maestro, Sara Yvonne Brucker, Karsten Weber, Fabien Reyal, Dominic Amara, Mandar G Karhade, Randi R Mathiesen, Hideaki Tokiniwa, Antonio Llombart-Cussac, Alessandra Meddis, Paul Blanche, Koenraad d'Hollander, Klaus Pantel
Background: We conducted a meta-analysis in nonmetastatic breast cancer patients treated by neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT) to assess the clinical validity of circulating tumor cell (CTC) detection as a prognostic marker. Methods: We collected individual patient data from 21 studies in which CTC detection by CellSearch was performed in early breast cancer patients treated with NCT. The primary end point was overall survival, analyzed according to CTC detection, using Cox regression models stratified by study...
April 12, 2018: Journal of the National Cancer Institute