4Funaki NO, Tanaka J, Itami A, Kasamatsu T, Ohshio G,Onodera H, Monden K, Okino T, Imamura M. Detection of colorectal carcinoma cells in circulating peripheral blood by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction targeting cytokeratirr-20 mRNA. Life Sci 1997:60:643-652.
5Nishida S, Kitamura K, Ichikawa D, Koike H, Tani N, Yamagishi H. Molecular detection of disseminated cancer cells in the peripheral blood of patients with gastric cancer. Anticancer Res 2000;20:2155-2159.
6Chausovsky G, Luchansky M, Figer A, Shapira J, Gottfried M, Novis B, Bogelman G, Zemer R, Zimichman S, Klein A. Expression of cytokeratin 20 in the blood of patients with dissminated carcinoma of the pancreas, colon, stomach, and lung. Cancer 1999;86:2398-2405.
7Ikeguchi M, Ohro S, Maeda Y, Fukuda K, Yamaguchi K, Shirai H, Kondo A, Tsujitani S, Kaibara N. Detection of cancer cells in the peripheral blood of gastric cancer patients. Int J Mol Med 2003;11:217-221.
8Majima T, Ichikura T, Takayama E, Chochi K, Mochizuki H. Detecting circulating cancer cells using reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction for cytokeratin mRNA in peripheral blood from patients with gastric cancer. Jpn J Clin Oncol 2000;30:499-503.
9Shin JH, Chung J, Kim HO, Kim YH, Hur YM, Rhim JH, Chung HK, Park SC, Park JG, Yang HK. Detection of cancer cells in peripheral blood of stomach cancer patients using RT-PCR amplification of tumour specific mRNAs. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2002;16:137-144.
10Kodera Y, Nakanishi H, Ito S, Yamamura Y, Kanemitsu Y, Shimizu Y, Hirai T, Yasui K, Kato T, Tatematsu M. Quantitiative detection of disseminated free cancer cells in peritoneal washes with real-time reverse transcriptase-poly merase chain reaction :a sensitive predictor of outcome for patients with gastric carcinoma. Ann Surg 2002;235:499-506.
