Table 1.

Number of CTCs isolated for each patient at each access time A, B and C.

Patient Code	BC Subtype	Access Time			Total
		A	B	C
1	TNBC	6	0	0	6
2	TNBC	1	2	1	4
3	TNBC	0	1	3	4
4	TNBC	6	3	3	12
TNBC total		13	6	7	26
6	HER2+	1	1	1	3
7	Luminal A	1	1	1	3
8	Luminal A	2	3	0	5
9	Luminal A	1	1	1	3
10	Luminal A	1	0	2	3
11	Luminal A	3	0	0	3
12	Luminal A	2	1	0	3
Non-TNBC total		11	7	5	23
Total		24	13	12	49

BC: breast cancer; TNBC: triple-negative BC; HER2: H uman Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2.