Prognostic Significance of Circulating Tumour Cells and Disseminating Circulating Tumour Cell Clusters in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer by M. Ward, F. Lewis, C. O’Gorman, T. Kelly, S. Hurley, B. Henderson, F. Saadeh, K. Cadoo, J. O'Leary, S. O'Toole

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Biosensors for the Detection of Circulating Tumour Cells by Clotilde Costa, Miguel Abal, Rafael López-López, Laura Muinelo-Romay

Subjects: “…circulating tumour cells (CTCs)…”
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Applications of RNA characterisation in circulating tumour cells by Sara Hassan, Tony Blick, Elizabeth D. Williams, Erik W. Thompson

“…Circulating tumour cells (CTCs) are shed into the bloodstream from both primary and secondary tumours and provide a non-invasive means to study tumor progression and response to treatment. …”
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Striking Circulating Tumour Cells during Sleep by S. Moein Moghimi, Simó Schwartz

“…Circulating tumour cells (CTCs) with stem cell-like properties and epithelial-mesenchymal transition phenotype are precursor cells responsible for dissemination and metastatic spread of cancer [...]…”
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The challenges of detecting circulating tumour cells in sarcoma by Marta Tellez-Gabriel, Marta Tellez-Gabriel, Hannah K Brown, Robin Young, Marie-Francoise Heymann, Marie-Francoise Heymann, Dominique Heymann, Dominique Heymann

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Ex vivo expansion of circulating tumour cells (CTCs) by Bashir M. Mohamed, Mark P. Ward, Mark Bates, Cathy D. Spillane, Tanya Kelly, Cara Martin, Michael Gallagher, Sheena Heffernan, Lucy Norris, John Kennedy, Feras Abu Saadeh, Noreen Gleeson, Doug A. Brooks, Robert D. Brooks, Stavros Selemidis, Sharon O’Toole, John J. O’Leary

“…Abstract Circulating tumour cells (CTCs) are a critical intermediate step in the process of cancer metastasis. …”
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Integrin profile of circulating tumour cells in breast cancer patients by E. S. Grigoryeva, L. A. Tashireva, V. V. Alifanov, M. V. Zavyalova, V. M. Perelmuter

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Gene expression of circulating tumour cells in breast cancer patients by Bölke E, Orth K, Gerber PA, Lammering G, Mota R, Peiper M, Matuschek C, Budach W, Rusnak E, Shaikh S, Dogan B, Prisack HB, Bojar H

“…New technological achievements like the gene profiling of circulating tumour cells (CTC) could help identify new prognostic markers in the clinical setting. …”
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Update on the role of circulating tumour cells in cancer-associated thrombosis by John Castle, Emma Blower, Cliona C. Kirwan

“…Circulating Tumour Cells (CTCs), the mechanism by which cancer spreads from the primary tumour to distant metastatic sites and cancer-associated thrombosis (CAT), a systemic hypercoagulable state found in many cancer patients, appear to have a symbiotic relationship. …”
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Retracing Circulating Tumour Cells for Biomarker Characterization after Enumeration by Anders S. Frandsen, Anna Fabisiewicz, Agnieszka Jagiello-Gruszfeld, Anastasiya S. Haugaard, Louise Munkhaus Petersen, Katrine Brandt Albrektsen, Sarah Nejlund, Julie Smith, Henrik Stender, Thore Hillig, György Sölétormos

“…Background Retracing and biomarker characterization of individual circulating tumour cells (CTCs) may potentially contribute to personalized metastatic cancer therapy. …”
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Study on the effects of shear stress on the invasion of circulating tumour cells by Ong, Shi Min

“…In this final year project, it aims to research on the invasiveness of the circulating tumour cells (CTCs). A microfluidic system which can generate an oscillatory shear flow in a circulatory channel was used to mimic the microenvironment of CTCs. …”
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Cancer metastasis chemoprevention prevents circulating tumour cells from germination by Xiaodong Xie, Yumei Li, Shu Lian, Yusheng Lu, Lee Jia

“…Here we present cancer pre-metastasis chemoprevention strategy that can prevent circulating tumour cells (CTCs) from initiating metastases safely and effectively, and is disparate from the traditional cancer chemotherapy and cancer chemoprevention. …”
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Isolation, Detection and Analysis of Circulating Tumour Cells: A Nanotechnological Bioscope by Upama Das, Soumyabrata Banik, Sharmila Sajankila Nadumane, Shweta Chakrabarti, Dharshini Gopal, Shama Prasada Kabekkodu, Pornsak Srisungsitthisunti, Nirmal Mazumder, Rajib Biswas

Subjects: “…circulating tumour cells…”
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Measuring antigen expression of cancer cell lines and circulating tumour cells by Anouk Mentink, Khrystany T. Isebia, Jaco Kraan, Leon W. M. M. Terstappen, Michiel Stevens

“…Abstract When evaluating EpCAM-based enrichment technologies for circulating tumour cells (CTCs), the cell lines used should closely resemble real CTCs, meaning the EpCAM expression of CTCs needs to be known, but also the EpCAM expression of cell lines at different institutions and times is important. …”
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Circulating tumour cell clusters: isolation, biological significance and therapeutic implications by Jianglin Zhang, Xin Hong, Qingfeng Chen, Xuefei Liu, Yufan Yang, Guanyin Huang, Jingru Lian, Chunhao Long, Boxi Zhao, Binyu Zhang, Weijian Ye, Junhao Chen, Longxiang Du, Zhuofeng Jiang, Jialing Liu, Chengzhi Hu

“…Circulating tumour cells (CTCs) and CTC clusters are considered metastatic precursors due to their ability to seed distant metastasis. …”
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Circulating Tumour Cells (CTCs) in NSCLC: From Prognosis to Therapy Design by Zdeněk Kejík, Robert Kaplánek, Petr Dytrych, Michal Masařík, Kateřina Veselá, Nikita Abramenko, David Hoskovec, Martina Vašáková, Jarmila Králová, Pavel Martásek, Milan Jakubek

“…However, in some cases with high metastatic activity and high levels of circulating tumour cells (CTCs), the efficacy of standard treatment methods is insufficient and results in treatment failure and reduced patient survival. …”
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Fluid mechanics in circulating tumour cells: Role in metastasis and treatment strategies by Shivam Rajput, Pramod Kumar Sharma, Rishabha Malviya

“…This Review discusses the role that fluids play in metastasis, including the forces and stresses that are utilised by circulating tumour cells & tumour-associated factors. Given the intriguing concerns raised by the role of physiological fluids and their mechanics in the biology of the metastatic cascade, gaining insight into this process may reveal a novel strategy for intercepting cancer cells on their route.…”
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Clinical significance of genomic sequencing of circulating tumour cells (CTCs) in cancer by Abdul Auwal, M. Matakabbir Hossain, Tasfik Ul Haque Pronoy, K.M. Rashel, Md Nurujjaman, Alfred KY. Lam, Farhadul Islam

Subjects: “…Circulating tumour cells…”
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Circulating tumour cells demonstrate an altered response to hypoxia and an aggressive phenotype. by Ameri, K, Luong, R, Zhang, H, Powell, A, Montgomery, K, Espinosa, I, Bouley, D, Harris, A, Jeffrey, S

“…Treatment refractory patients with metastatic cancer show increased numbers of circulating tumour cells (CTCs), which are also associated with disease progression. …”

Circulating tumour cells in patients with lung cancer universally indicate poor prognosis by Fukang Jin, Lei Zhu, Jingbo Shao, Mina Yakoub, Lukas Schmitt, Christoph Reißfelder, Sonja Loges, Axel Benner, Sebastian Schölch

“…Background: In lung cancer, the relevance of various circulating tumour cell (CTC) subgroups in different lung cancer subtypes is unclear. …”
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