07 January 2021>: Clinical Research
Comparison of CellSearch and Circulating Tumor Cells (CTC)-Biopsy Systems in Detecting Peripheral Blood Circulating Tumor Cells in Patients with Gastric Cancer
Dawei Ning 1BCEF , Kai Cui 2BC , Min Liu 2D , Yang Ou 3BCEF , Zhendan Wang 4B , Benkui Zou 5B , Yangyang Shen 6B , Xinyang Lu 7B , Sheng Li 8AG* , Pang Li 9AB*DOI: 10.12659/MSM.926565
Med Sci Monit 2021; 27:e926565
Table 4 Comparison of CellSearch and CTC-Biopsy systems in terms of circulating tumor cells detection rate.
CellSearch | CTC-Biopsy | Total | P-value | Kappa value | |
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Positive | Negative | ||||
Positive | 12 | 4 | 16 | 0.138* | |
Negative | 24 | 19 | 43 | ||
* Kappa |