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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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Detection, isolation, and capture of circulating breast cancer cells with photoacoustic flow cytometry

TL;DR: This method can not only be used to determine the disease state of the patient and the response to therapy, it can also be used for genetic testing and in vitro drug trials since the circulating cell can be captured and studied.
Dissertation

Exploring Markov modeling approaches for the health economic assessment of circulating tumor cells in the management of metastatic prostate cancer patients

W. Kenter
TL;DR: Although, an indication that CTC-trap is a probable technology to use in the diagnostic pathway of prostate cancer, the evidence to substantiate this claim is difficult to obtain via Markov modeling, the results demonstrate the difficulty of Markov modeled approaches in early HTA in personalized (cancer) care.
Book ChapterDOI

Microfluidic Technologies for Deformability-Based Cell Sorting

TL;DR: The role of deformability in circulating cells, including erythrocytes, leukocytes, and CTCs, is discussed and a recently developed method to sort cells based on deformability using the microfluidic ratchet mechanism is described.
Journal ArticleDOI

Detection, manipulation and post processing of circulating tumor cells using optical techniques

TL;DR: Optical methods that have been used for CTC detection, manipulation and post processing are described and microfluidic systems seem to be more attractive for researchers due to their numerous advantages.
Proceedings ArticleDOI

Magnetic trapping with simultaneous photoacoustic detection of molecularly targeted rare circulating tumor cells

TL;DR: Preliminary results show that the cells accumulate rapidly in the presence of an externally applied magnetic field produced by a dual magnet system, which appears promising for future preclinical studies on a small animal model and ultimate clinical detection of rare CTCs in the vasculature.
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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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