Fig. 1.
Quantitative variation of GC-CTM following treatment and its relevance to prognosis. A Percentages of patients with pre-therapeutic, acquired intra-therapeutic CTM+ and CTM−. B Quantitative comparison of CTM number before treatment and post-PD. The histograms and heatmaps, respectively, indicate the total and average number of CTM before treatment and post-PD. C A heatmap shows quantitative variations in CTM before treatment and post-PD in individual PD patients. Increased or decreased CTM numbers are indicated by red or blue color in the heatmap, the white color represents no detectable CTM. D, E Kaplan–Meier curves of PFS (D) and OS (E) in relation to pre-therapeutically CTM enumeration