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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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Methods for analyzing rare circulating cells

TL;DR: The disclosure provides methods for analyzing rare circulating cells (RCCs) at cellular and molecular level following their detection in non-enriched blood samples, methods of this disclosure serve as diagnostic methods for several disease conditions, including cardiovascular diseases and cancer as mentioned in this paper.
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Comparison of Two EpCAM-Based Methods for CTC Detection and Molecular Characterization in Advanced Colorectal Cancer

TL;DR: Compared CellSearch® and IsoFluxTM systems for the enumeration of CTC in patients with newly diagnosed advCRC and studied KRAS status in CTC isolated with IsofluxTM to assess its value for predicting response to treatment or as a source of molecular data.
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Diagnostic Utility of Unbiased Circulating Tumour Cell Capture through Negative Depletion of Peripheral Blood Cells

TL;DR: Negative depletion can be used to isolate CTCs in standard clinical settings; however, more effective ways of detection are required to increase the sensitivity of the diagnosis.
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Minimal residual disease in early colorectal carcinoma

TL;DR: Information about the specificity and sensitivity of molecular biology, oncogenetics and histopathological methods for early diagnostics of minimal residual disease in the blood of colorectal cancer patients provides evidence that the presence of such cells is essential for monitoring the progression and therapeutic response of this oncological disease.
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Clinical Utility of Circulating Tumor Cells – A Clinician’s Current View

Tar Choon Aw
TL;DR: The studies underpinning the established uses of CTC enumeration in prognosis of metastatic cancers (breast, prostate and colon) will be highlighted as well as the imminent deployment in early breast cancer.
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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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