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Overview

Klaus Pantel is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research primarily focuses on oncology, cancer research, and molecular biology, with significant attention to pulmonary and respiratory medicine as well as immunology.

Their work spans several important cancer-related topics, including cancer genomics and diagnostics, cancer cells and metastasis, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, pancreatic and hepatic oncology research, prostate cancer treatment and research, advanced breast cancer therapies, and immunotherapy and immune responses.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • ESMO recommendations on the use of circulating tumour DNA assays for patients with cancer: a report from the ESMO Precision Medicine Working Group, 2022, Annals of Oncology
  • Clinical relevance of blood-based ctDNA analysis: mutation detection and beyond, 2020, British Journal of Cancer
  • Circulating tumour cells for early detection of clinically relevant cancer, 2023, Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology
  • Liquid biopsies: Potential and challenges, 2020, International Journal of Cancer
  • Novel approaches to target the microenvironment of bone metastasis, 2021, Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Klaus Pantel include Sabine Riethdorf, Harriet Wikman, Daniel J. Smit, Volkmar Müller, and Tanja Fehm. These collaborations have contributed significantly to advancing knowledge in cancer diagnostics and treatment.

Klaus Pantel has published extensively in several prominent scientific journals. Key venues for their publications include Cancer Research, Cancers, Clinical Chemistry, Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research, and Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde.

Best Publications

  • Tumour exosome integrins determine organotropic metastasis

    Ayuko Hoshino;Bruno Costa-Silva;Tang-Long Shen;Goncalo Rodrigues

  • Cell-free nucleic acids as biomarkers in cancer patients

    Heidi Schwarzenbach;Dave S. B. Hoon;Klaus Pantel

  • A pooled analysis of bone marrow micrometastasis in breast cancer

    Stephan Braun;Florian D. Vogl;Bjørn Naume;Wolfgang Janni

  • Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells in Peripheral Blood of Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Validation Study of the CellSearch System

    Sabine Riethdorf;Herbert Fritsche;Volkmar Müller;Thomas Rau

  • PGC-1α mediates mitochondrial biogenesis and oxidative phosphorylation in cancer cells to promote metastasis

    Valerie S. LeBleu;Joyce T. O’Connell;Karina N. Gonzalez Herrera;Harriet Wikman

  • Clinical relevance of circulating cell-free microRNAs in cancer

    Heidi Schwarzenbach;Naohiro Nishida;George A. Calin;Klaus Pantel

  • Cytokeratin-positive cells in the bone marrow and survival of patients with stage I, II, or III breast cancer.

    Stephan Braun;Klaus Pantel;Peter Müller;Wolfgang Janni

  • Identification of a population of blood circulating tumor cells from breast cancer patients that initiates metastasis in a xenograft assay

    Irène Baccelli;Andreas Schneeweiss;Sabine Riethdorf;Albrecht Stenzinger

  • Clinical validity of circulating tumour cells in patients with metastatic breast cancer: a pooled analysis of individual patient data

    François-Clément Bidard;François-Clément Bidard;Dieter Peeters;Tanja Fehm;Franco Nolé

  • Liquid biopsy and minimal residual disease - latest advances and implications for cure.

    Klaus Pantel;Catherine Alix-Panabières

  • Tumor metastasis: moving new biological insights into the clinic

    Liling Wan;Klaus Pantel;Yibin Kang

  • Circulating Tumor Cells Predict Survival in Early Average-to-High Risk Breast Cancer Patients

    Brigitte Rack;Christian Schindlbeck;Julia Jückstock;Ulrich Andergassen

  • Circulating and disseminated tumour cells - mechanisms of immune surveillance and escape.

    Malte Mohme;Sabine Riethdorf;Klaus Pantel

  • The biology of circulating tumor cells

    K Pantel;M R Speicher

  • Comparative genomic hybridization, loss of heterozygosity, and DNA sequence analysis of single cells

    Christoph A. Klein;Oleg Schmidt-Kittler;Julian A. Schardt;Klaus Pantel

  • Differential Expression of Proliferation-Associated Molecules in Individual Micrometastatic Carcinoma Cells

    Klaus Pantel;Günter Schlimok;Stephan Braun;Dominik Kutter

  • Detection and HER2 Expression of Circulating Tumor Cells: Prospective Monitoring in Breast Cancer Patients Treated in the Neoadjuvant GeparQuattro Trial

    Sabine Riethdorf;Volkmar Müller;Liling Zhang;Thomas Rau

  • Complex Tumor Genomes Inferred from Single Circulating Tumor Cells by Array-CGH and Next-Generation Sequencing

    Ellen Heitzer;Martina Auer;Christin Gasch;Martin Pichler

  • Prognostic value of immunohistochemically identifiable tumor cells in lymph nodes of patients with completely resected esophageal cancer

    Jakob Robert Izbicki;Stefan Benedikt Hosch;Uwe Pichlmeier;Alexander Rehders

  • VCAM-1 promotes osteolytic expansion of indolent bone micrometastasis of breast cancer by engaging α4β1-positive osteoclast progenitors

    Xin Lu;Euphemia Mu;Yong Wei;Sabine Riethdorf

Frequent Co-Authors

Volkmar Müller
Volkmar Müller Universität Hamburg
Tanja Fehm
Tanja Fehm Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Jakob R. Izbicki
Jakob R. Izbicki Universität Hamburg
Andreas Schneeweiss
Andreas Schneeweiss German Cancer Research Center
Gert Riethmüller
Gert Riethmüller Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Peter A. Fasching
Peter A. Fasching University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Carsten Bokemeyer
Carsten Bokemeyer Universität Hamburg
Felix K.-H. Chun
Felix K.-H. Chun Universität Hamburg
Markus Glatzel
Markus Glatzel Universität Hamburg
Michael R. Speicher
Michael R. Speicher Medical University of Graz

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