Circulating tumour cells and their association with bone metastases in patients with neuroendocrine tumours.

Br J Cancer · 2019 · PMC6353867 · PMID 30636773

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showed a trendp = 0.08so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Staining for CXCR4 on matched FFPE tissue showed a trend towards a correlation with CXCR4 expression on CTCs ( p = 0.08).

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

Our results did not reach statistical significance, likely due to the small number of patients included in this subgroup analysis, but the limited sensitivity of imaging to detect subclinical bone metastases may be another important factor.

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