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. 2009 Dec 9;2010:617421. doi: 10.1155/2010/617421

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Kaplan Meier Analysis of overall survival. Favorable CTCs are indicated with 1 through 4 and Unfavorable CTCs with 5 through 8. (a) Median overall survival of MBC patients with Favorable CTC after 3–5 Weeks (1) (n = 92), 6–8 Weeks (2) (n = 77), 9–14 Weeks (3) (n = 105) and 15–20 Weeks (4) (n = 70) of treatment median was 21.7, 19.1, 20.8, and 20.1 months, respectively. Median overall survival of MBC patients with Unfavorable CTC after 3–5 Weeks (5) (n = 40), 6–8 Weeks (6) (n = 22) 9–14 Weeks (7) (n = 24), and 15–20 Weeks (8) (n = 15) of treatment was 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, and 11.3 months, respectively. (b) Median overall survival of MCRC patients with Favorable CTC after 1–2 Weeks (1) (n = 316), 3–5 Weeks (2) (n = 292), 6–12 Weeks (3) (n = 285), and 13–20 Weeks (4) (n = 172) of treatment was 15.7, 16.4, 15.8, and 14.6 months, respectively. Median overall survival of MCRC patients with Unfavorable CTC after 1–2 Weeks (5) (n = 41) 3–5 Weeks (6) (n = 41), 6–12 Weeks (7) (n = 25), and 13–20 Weeks (8) (n = 21) of treatment median was 6.1, 4.4, 3.3, and 3.3 months, respectively. (c) Median overall survival of MPC patients with Favorable CTC after 2–5 Weeks (1) (n = 123), 6–8 Weeks (2) (n = 110), 9–12 Weeks (3) (n = 100), and 13–20 Weeks (4) (n = 99) of treatment median was 20.7, 19.9, 19.6, and 19.8 months, respectively. Median overall survival of MPC patients with Unfavorable CTC after 2–5 Weeks (5) (n = 80), 6–8 Weeks (6) (n = 53), 9–12 Weeks (7) (n = 49), and 13–20 Weeks (8) (n = 44) of treatment was 9.5, 8.5, 7.6, and 6.7 months, respectively. The cutoff value between favorable and unfavorable CTC was ≥5 CTC/7.5 mL blood for breast and prostate cancer and ≥3 CTC/7.5 mL blood for prostate cancer.