Around 20 years ago, it was discovered that the presence of circulating tumor cells (CTC) in patients with metastatic breast cancer who were about to begin a new line of treatment was predictive ...

The team reported on the study results in Nature Medicine, in a paper titled, “Digoxin for reduction of circulating tumor cell cluster size in metastatic breast cancer: a proof-of-concept trial ...

Methods: We analyzed 23 mL of peripheral blood from 1,489 N+ and high risk N- breast cancer pts before and after adjuvant taxane based chemotherapy. CTC were assessed with the CellSearchSystem ...

Table 2. Summary of commonly utilized markers used in the reverse transcriptase PCR-based methods for detecting, analyzing and characterizing genetically circulating tumor cells from prostate ...

“Circulating Tumor Cell Count and Overall Survival in Patients With Metastatic Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer” by Dr. Amir Goldkorn et al., JAMA Network Open. For more news on cancer updates, ...

In the three articles that accompany this editorial, Garcés et al, 12 Bertamini et al, 13 and Hofste op Bruinink et al 14 have demonstrated that circulating tumor cells (CTCs) can be identified in a ...

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Men with no circulating tumor cells achieved significantly longer median OS (not reached) than those who had one to four circulating tumor cells (56.2 months; 95% CI, 45.7-69.8) and those who had ...

Circulating tumor cell count can be measured via a simple blood draw, known as a liquid biopsy. Researchers found five or more CTCs per 7.5 milliliters (mL) of blood drawn in 60 samples (11.9%), one ...

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs), ... Standardization of detection protocols across clinical settings will be crucial for integrating CTC analysis into routine cancer care. Conclusions.