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Review
. 2019 Nov 25;30(4):423-437.
eCollection 2019 Nov.

Past, Present and Future of Flow Cytometry in Breast Cancer - A Systematic Review

Maria Andreou  1 , Evrysthenis Vartholomatos  1 , Haralampos Harissis  2 , Georgios S Markopoulos  1   3 , George A Alexiou  4
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Review

Past, Present and Future of Flow Cytometry in Breast Cancer - A Systematic Review

Maria Andreou et al. EJIFCC. .

Abstract

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women worldwide. In this systematic review 28 studies were taken into account, in order to evaluate the role of DNA content and cell cycle phases, measured by flow cytometry in breast cancer. Presence of aneuploidy and S-phase fraction have been extensively studied as a prognostication tool. With the current dawn of the age of intraoperative flow cytometry the present systematic review provide an insight of the current role of flow cytometry in breast cancer and future horizons.

Keywords: aneuploidy; breast cancer; flow cytometry.

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