Frequency of colonies and clusters
| . | No. of colonies . | No. of clusters . | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient (no. of cells) . | BM clonal PCs . | CTCs . | BM clonal PCs . | CTCs . |
| 1 (1200) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 (5300) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 (6500) | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 (10 000) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 (10 000) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 (40 000) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 (72 000) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 (80 000) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 |
| 9 (100 000) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 (349 000) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| . | No. of colonies . | No. of clusters . | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient (no. of cells) . | BM clonal PCs . | CTCs . | BM clonal PCs . | CTCs . |
| 1 (1200) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 (5300) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 (6500) | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 (10 000) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 (10 000) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 (40 000) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 (72 000) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 (80 000) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 |
| 9 (100 000) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 (349 000) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Frequency of colonies and clusters scored at day +14 after coculture of the same number of paired BM clonal PCs and CTCs with the human mesenchymal stem cell line immortalized by expression of the telomerase reverse transcriptase gene, hMSC-TERT.