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Cancer Cells in the Blood Stream
LeROY LONG, M.D.;
STUART ROBERTS, M.D.;
RUTH McGRATH, B.S.;
ELIZABETH McGREW, M.D.;
WARREN H. COLE, M.D.
AMA Arch Surg. 1960;80(4):639-645.
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Although reports of cancer cells in the blood stream have appeared sporadically in the medical literature over the past 100 years, only recently has it been possible with newer techniques to isolate and definitely identify these cells. This study is a continuation of work initially reported by Cole, Packard, and Southwick,1 in 1954. At that time cancer cells were isolated from fluid perfused through the major artery and collected from the major vein of colonic specimens containing carcinoma (Fig. 1). As a result of this work the study was amplified to include the examination of whole blood samples collected during the observation and treatment of patients with malignant disease. Such an approach has made it possible to study certain prognostic and therapeutic features, including response to surgery and chemotherapy.
Methods
Collection of Blood Samples.
—Peripheral blood samples are drawn from the antecubital vein. Blood samples from the veins draining
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Author Affiliations
Chicago
From the Departments of Surgery and Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, and the University of Illinois Research and Educational Hospitals.
Footnotes
Received for publication Sept. 24, 1959.
Aided by grants from American Cancer Society, Illinois Division, and U.S. Public Health Service (CS-9594).
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