Towards the Biological Understanding of CTC: Capture Technologies, Definitions and Potential to Create Metastasis

Towards the Biological Understanding of CTC: Capture Technologies, Definitions and Potential to Create Metastasis

Circulating Tumor Cells (CTC) are rare cells originated from tumors that travel into the blood stream, extravasate to different organs of which only a small fraction will develop into metastasis. The presence of CTC enumerated with the CellSearch system is associated with a relative short survival a...

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Main Authors: Ana M.C. Barradas, Leon W.M.M. Terstappen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-12-01
Series:Cancers
Subjects:
circulating tumor cells
image analysis
filtration
EpCAM
cancer stem cell
tumorogenesis
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/5/4/1619

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