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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 21.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Cancer Res. 2015 Mar 16;21(12):2771–2779. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-14-2781

Table 1.

Incidence of CTC, CTC apoptosis, and CTC clusters.

A. Incidence of CTC
CTC/7.5ml WB ≥5 CTC/7.5 ml WB By Randomized Arm
≥1 ≥3 ≥5 nab-PAC nab-PAC + TIG p-value
Baseline 61.5% (32/52) 50.0% (26/52) 36.5% (19/52) 31.6% (6119) 39.4% (13/33) 0.57
Day 15 42 .3% (22/52) 32.7% (17/52) 26.9% (14/52) 15.8 (3119) 33 .3% (11/33) 0.17
Day 29 38.8% (19/49) 28.6% (14/49) 26.5% (13/49) 22.2% (4118) 290% (9/31) 0.74
B. Incidence of CTC-apoptosis and CTC-clusters
CTC-Apoptosisa CTC-Clustersb
Baseline Day 15 Day 29 Baseline Day 15 Day 29
5/19 (26.3%) 7/14 (50.0%) 8/13 (61.5%) 8/32 (25.0%) 4/22 (18.2%) 7/19 (36.8%)
C. Apoptosis according to single vs. clustered CTC at any time during the trial
Single CTC CTC-cluster
# of single CTC cells % single cell positive for apoptosis # of CTC in the cluster % CTC cluster with 1 cell positive for apoptosis
8393 20% 943 0.4%
D. Apoptosis according to single vs. clustered CTC at baseline, day 15, and day 29
Baseline Day 15 Day 29
Single cell 516/2678
(19%)
363/1505
(24%)
795/4210
(19%)
Cluster 1/16 1
(0.6%)
0/283
(0%)
3/499
(0.6%)
a

Of those ≥ 5CTC/7.5 ml WB;

b

Of those with ≥ 1 CTC/7.5 1111 WE.