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Significance of Circulating Tumor Cells Detected by the CellSearch System in Patients with Metastatic Breast Colorectal and Prostate Cancer.

M. Craig Miller, +2 more
- 01 Jan 2010 - 
- Vol. 2010, pp 617421-617421
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Comparing the outcomes from three prospective multicenter studies investigating the use of CTC to monitor patients undergoing treatment for metastatic breast, colorectal, or prostate cancer is compared and the CTC definition used in these studies is reviewed.
Abstract
The increasing number of treatment options for patients with metastatic carcinomas has created a concomitant need for new methods to monitor their use. Ideally, these modalities would be noninvasive, be independent of treatment, and provide quantitative real-time analysis of tumor activity in a variety of carcinomas. Assessment of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) shed into the blood during metastasis may satisfy this need. We developed the CellSearch System to enumerate CTC from 7.5 mL of venous blood. In this review we compare the outcomes from three prospective multicenter studies investigating the use of CTC to monitor patients undergoing treatment for metastatic breast (MBC), colorectal (MCRC), or prostate cancer (MPC) and review the CTC definition used in these studies. Evaluation of CTC at anytime during the course of disease allows assessment of patient prognosis and is predictive of overall survival.

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Selection and high-throughput immunofluorescence detection of cell lines with a hybrid epithelial/mesenchymal phenotype : towards improved characterization of Circulating Tumor Cells

TL;DR: A set of technologies can be used to improve the detection and characterization of CTCs and contribute to the development of fluorescent semiconductor nanocrystals conjugated with antibody directed against the protein of interest.
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Bridging the Gaps between Circulating Tumor Cells and DNA Methylation in Prostate Cancer.

TL;DR: In this paper, a critical review of published data on the usefulness of DNA methylation and circulating tumor cells in diagnosis and treatment decisions in cases of prostate cancer, underlining key aspects and discussing the importance of these advances to the improvement of the management of the prostate cancer patients.
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Microfluidic approaches for cell-based molecular diagnosis.

TL;DR: This work has compared and summarized recent advances in modular approaches toward the realization of fully-integrated, cell-based molecular diagnostics for clinical and point-of-care applications.
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Prospects for Fluorescence Molecular In Vivo Liquid Biopsy of Circulating Tumor Cells in Humans

Mark Niedre
TL;DR: The technical challenges of human translation of DiFC in the context of the current state of the technology are discussed, as well as potential strategies for labeling of CTCs with targeted fluorescent molecular probes.
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Circulating melanoma cells: scoping the target.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a reliable, efficient platform to isolate, enrich, and characterize CMC in blood for melanoma management using whole-genome sequencing (WG sequenceto-sequencing).
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The pathogenesis of cancer metastasis: the 'seed and soil' hypothesis revisited

TL;DR: It is now known that the potential of a tumour cell to metastasize depends on its interactions with the homeostatic factors that promote tumour-cell growth, survival, angiogenesis, invasion and metastasis.
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Isolation of rare circulating tumour cells in cancer patients by microchip technology.

TL;DR: The CTC-chip successfully identified CTCs in the peripheral blood of patients with metastatic lung, prostate, pancreatic, breast and colon cancer in 115 of 116 samples, with a range of 5–1,281CTCs per ml and approximately 50% purity.
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Tumor cells circulate in the peripheral blood of all major carcinomas but not in healthy subjects or patients with nonmalignant diseases.

TL;DR: The CellSearch system can be standardized across multiple laboratories and may be used to determine the clinical utility of CTCs, which are extremely rare in healthy subjects and patients with nonmalignant diseases but present in various metastatic carcinomas with a wide range of frequencies.
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