EpCAM-independent isolation of circulating tumor cells with epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and cancer stem cell phenotypes using ApoStream^® in patients with breast cancer treated with primary systemic therapy

• Fanny Le Du,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Breast Medical Oncology, Section of Translational Breast Cancer Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Medical Oncology, Eugène Marquis Cancer Center, Rennes, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4372-5832

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• Takeo Fujii,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Breast Medical Oncology, Section of Translational Breast Cancer Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Kumiko Kida,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Breast Medical Oncology, Section of Translational Breast Cancer Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Darren W. Davis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ApoCell, Inc., Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Minjeong Park,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Diane D. Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Weiguo Wu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ApoCell, Inc., Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Mariana Chavez-MacGregor,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Breast Medical Oncology, Section of Translational Breast Cancer Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Carlos H. Barcenas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Breast Medical Oncology, Section of Translational Breast Cancer Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Vicente Valero,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Breast Medical Oncology, Section of Translational Breast Cancer Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Debu Tripathy,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Breast Medical Oncology, Section of Translational Breast Cancer Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• James M. Reuben,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Naoto T. Ueno

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nueno@mdanderson.org

  Affiliation Department of Breast Medical Oncology, Section of Translational Breast Cancer Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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