Follow-up Study of Peripheral Blood Carcinoembryonic Antigen mRNA Using Reverse Transcription–Polymerase Chain Reaction as an Early Marker of Clinical Recurrence in Patients With Curatively Resected Gastric Cancer

Recent Advances in the Polymerase Chain Reaction

1991 • 1,068 citations

Identification of p53 Gene Mutations in Bladder Cancers and Urine Samples

1991 • 891 citations

Micrometastases and Survival in Stage II Colorectal Cancer

1998 • 602 citations

Specific detection of carcinoembryonic antigen-expressing tumor cells in bone marrow aspirates by polymerase chain reaction.

1994 • 382 citations

Detection of cancer micrometastases in lymph nodes by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction.

1995 • 366 citations

Detection of epithelial cancer cells in peripheral blood by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction

1995 • 343 citations

Genetic diagnosis of lymph-node metastasis in colorectal cancer

1995 • 289 citations

Detection of circulating tumor cells in patients with localized and metastatic prostatic carcinoma: clinical implications.

1995 • 220 citations

Clinical significance of bone marrow metastases as detected using the polymerase chain reaction in patients with breast cancer undergoing high-dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow transplantation.

1996 • 188 citations

Clinical significance of molecular detection of carcinoma cells in lymph nodes and peripheral blood by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction in patients with gastrointestinal or breast carcinomas.

1998 • 183 citations

The detection of disseminated tumor cells in bone marrow from colorectal-cancer patients by a cytokeratin-20-specific nested reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain reaction is related to the stage of disease

1996 • 160 citations

Detection of circulating tumor cells by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction in patients with resectable non-small-cell lung cancer

1999 • 72 citations

Keratin 19 mRNA measurement to detect micrometastases in lymph nodes in breast cancer patients

1996 • 60 citations

CEA mRNA Identification in Peripheral Blood Is Feasible for Colorectal, But Not for Gastric or Pancreatic Cancer Staging

2000 • 60 citations

Lung cancer metastatic cells detected in blood by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction and dot-blot analysis.

1997 • 50 citations

Molecular detection of disseminated cancer cells in the peripheral blood of patients with gastric cancer.

2000 • 32 citations

Detection of circulating tumor cells in patients with gastrointestinal tract cancer using RT-PCR and its clinical implications

2001 • 23 citations

Molecular detection of disseminated cancer cells in the peripheral blood and expression of sialylated antigens in colon cancers

2000 • 22 citations

Evaluation of the reverse transcriptase/polymerase chain reaction for carcinoembryonic antigen for the detection of breast cancer dissemination in bone marrow and peripheral blood

1999 • 12 citations