TY - JOUR AU - Goto, Wataru AU - Kashiwagi, Shinichiro AU - Asano, Yuka AU - Takada, Koji AU - Takahashi, Katsuyuki AU - Hatano, Takaharu AU - Takashima, Tsutomu AU - Tomita, Shuhei AU - Motomura, Hisashi AU - Ohsawa, Masahiko AU - Hirakawa, Kosei AU - Ohira, Masaichi PY - 2017 DA - 2017/05/12 TI - Circulating tumor cell clusters-associated gene plakoglobin is a significant prognostic predictor in patients with breast cancer JO - Biomarker Research SP - 19 VL - 5 IS - 1 AB - Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are linked to metastatic relapse and are regarded as a prognostic marker for human cancer. High expression of plakoglobin, a cell adhesion protein, within the primary tumor is positively associated with CTC clusters in breast cancer. In this study, we investigated the correlation between plakoglobin expression and survival of breast cancer. SN - 2050-7771 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40364-017-0099-2 DO - 10.1186/s40364-017-0099-2 ID - Goto2017 ER -