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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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Prognostic significance of circulating tumor cells in advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients treated with docetaxel and gemcitabine

TL;DR: CTCs ≥2 at baseline were detected only in 24 % of this group of patients with advanced NSCLC and poor performance status, and no significant differences in PFS and OS between patients with or without CTCs at baselinewere observed.
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Folic Acid Targeting for Efficient Isolation and Detection of Ovarian Cancer CTCs from Human Whole Blood Based on Two-Step Binding Strategy.

TL;DR: The results indicated that FA targeting, in combination with BSA-based multibiotin enhancement magnetic nanoparticle separation, is a promising tool for CTC enrichment and detection of early-stage ovarian cancer.
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Dissecting the Heterogeneity of Circulating Tumor Cells in Metastatic Breast Cancer: Going Far Beyond the Needle in the Haystack

TL;DR: The types of heterogeneity identified and the key role played by the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in driving CTC heterogeneity will be described and the clinical relevance of detecting CTC-heterogeneity will be discussed.
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Evaluation of Isolation Methods for Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs).

TL;DR: Dynal-anti-CD45 beads have the best recovery rate compared to other magnetic methods, and the recovery rate of ISET was higher compared to Cell Search, especially for the more aggressive MDA-MB 231 cell line.
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Circulating Tumor Cells and “Suspicious Objects” Evaluated Through CellSearch® in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma

TL;DR: The low number of CTCs detected through CellSearch in renal cell carcinoma may be due to the presence of a CTC population with atypical characteristics and a peculiar gene expression profile, characterized by lack of cytokeratin expression and gain of CD44.
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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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