Table VI.

Correlation between CTCs and therapeutic effect following treatment with cisplatin and paclitaxel.

Variable	Spearman's ρ	Total CTCs	Epithelial CTCs	Hybrid CTCs	Mesenchymal CTCs	Total CTCs change	Epithelial CTCs change	Hybrid CTCs change	Mesenchymal CTCs change
Therapeutic effect	ρ	−0.319	0.019	−0.308	−0.494	−0.347	−0.025	−0.292	−0.279
	P-value	0.066	0.913	0.076	0.003b	0.044a	0.890	0.094	0.110
Patient samples		34	34	34	34	34	34	34	34

CTCs, circulating tumor cells.

^aP<0.05

^bP<0.01.