Morphological differences between circulating tumor cells from prostate cancer patients and cultured prostate cancer cells.

Circulating tumor cell (CTC) enumeration promises to be an important predictor of clinical outcome for a range of cancers. Established CTC enumeration methods primarily rely on affinity capture of cell surface antigens, and have been criticized for underestimation of CTC numbers due to antigenic bia...

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Main Authors: Sunyoung Park, Richard R Ang, Simon P Duffy, Jenny Bazov, Kim N Chi, Peter C Black, Hongshen Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3885705?pdf=render