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Table 3 Human values for dissemination rate

From: Detection of cancer before distant metastasis

Publication

Cancer

N

Diameter (mm)

Disseminated cells a

Rdiss(CTC/h · g)b

Glaves 1988 [44]

Renal

15

5-10

890

78 · 103

Wind 2009 [45]c

Colon

13

4.1 ± 1.4

0.05

90

Wind 2009 [45]d

Colon

18

5.0 ± 2.3

3.2

3.1 · 103

  1. a mean CTC/mL tumor efferent blood, b for spherical tumor, c laparoscopic surgery, d open surgery.