… Approximately 50% of patients with metastatic urothelial cancer (UC) respond to chemotherapy
… study sought to characterize circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in patients with metastatic UC. …

Background The diagnostic value and prognostic significance of circulating tumor cell (CTC)
detection in patients with bladder cancer is controversial. We performed a meta-analysis to …

… reported that urothelial cancer cells express the epithelial-cell … System to detect urothelial
cancer cells because the assay is … the tumor cells detected reflects the actual peripheral blood …

… Circulating urothelial cancer cells were detected in patients with metastatic urothelial cancer
using this system. The rate of detection using a threshold of at least one CTC or two or more …

… to avoid overtreatment and prolong cancer survival. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are
malignant cells that can be detected in the peripheral blood. These cells can serve as biomarkers …

… of tumor cells, suppress the properties of UroCSCs, inhibit bladder cancer progression and
tumor … , and provide rationale in the treatment and clinical management of urothelial cancer. …

… New “liquid biopsy” blood tests are emerging for urothelial cancer aimed at … tumor cells
may be best for studying the biological features of a person’s cancer, whereas circulating tumor …

… primary tumor biology. Here, we sequenced the exomes of 25 bladder cancer (BCa) cell …
and drug response to BCa patient profiles in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). We observed a …

… candidates to identify urothelial carcinoma stem cells, eg specific … of the stem cells of normal
urothelium and urothelial cancer have … on normal urothelial and urothelial cancer stem cells. …

… the mitochondria of tumor cells emits red fluorescent light in the range of 600-740 nm. By
using 5-ALA as a photosensitizer to produce red fluorescence in tumor cells, tumor cells can be …