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Table 3 Comparison of EpCAM and cytokeratin (CK) expression profile of tumor cells in body fluids and peripheral blood samples

From: Negative enrichment by immunomagnetic nanobeads for unbiased characterization of circulating tumor cells from peripheral blood of cancer patients

Cancer

Body fluids (%)

Blood (cells/10 mL)

 

EpCAM+ CK+

EpCAM- CK+

EpCAM+ CK-

EpCAM+ CK+

EpCAM- CK+

EpCAM+ CK-

NSCLC

<0.1%

94%

<0.1%

0

3

0

NSCLC

<0.1%

68.6%

<0.1%

0

29

0

SCCHN

69.6%

16.7%

5.8%

2

0

2

Gastric

90.2%

1.8%

2.5%

1

0

0

Gastric

<0.1%

1.3%

<0.1%

1

9

1

Colon

<0.1%

98.8%

<0.1%

15

0

4

Ovarian

<0.1%

95.7%

0.5%

2

0

0