Unravelling tumour heterogeneity by single-cell profiling of circulating tumour cells

L Keller, K Pantel - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Single-cell technologies have contributed to unravelling tumour heterogeneity, now
considered a hallmark of cancer and one of the main causes of tumour resistance to cancer …

Tumor heterogeneity in breast cancer

G Turashvili, E Brogi - Frontiers in medicine, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease and differs greatly among different patients
(intertumor heterogeneity) and even within each individual tumor (intratumor heterogeneity) …

Liquid biopsy in prostate cancer management—Current challenges and future perspectives

F Crocetto, G Russo, E Di Zazzo, P Pisapia, BF Mirto… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Prostate cancer (PCa) is a widespread malignancy, representing the
second leading cause of cancer-related death in men. In the last years, liquid biopsy has …

Cell fusion potentiates tumor heterogeneity and reveals circulating hybrid cells that correlate with stage and survival

CE Gast, AD Silk, L Zarour, L Riegler, JG Burkhart… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
High lethality rates associated with metastatic cancer highlight an urgent medical need for
improved understanding of biologic mechanisms driving metastatic spread and identification …

Circulating tumor cells predict survival in early average-to-high risk breast cancer patients

B Rack, C Schindlbeck, J Jückstock… - Journal of the …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have been shown to predict reduced
survival outcomes in metastatic breast cancer. Methods CTCs were analyzed in 2026 …

Circulating tumor cells and circulating tumor DNA: challenges and opportunities on the path to clinical utility

M Ignatiadis, M Lee, SS Jeffrey - Clinical Cancer Research, 2015 - AACR
Recent technological advances have enabled the detection and detailed characterization of
circulating tumor cells (CTC) and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in blood samples from …

Isolation of circulating tumor cells using a microvortex-generating herringbone-chip

SL Stott, CH Hsu, DI Tsukrov, M Yu… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) present in the bloodstream of patients with cancer
provide a potentially accessible source for detection, characterization, and monitoring of …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges in circulating tumor cell detection by the CellSearch system

KC Andree, G van Dalum, LWMM Terstappen - Molecular oncology, 2016 - Elsevier
Enumeration and characterization of circulating tumor cells (CTC) hold the promise of a real
time liquid biopsy. They are however present in a large background of hematopoietic cells …

Circulating tumor cells: approaches to isolation and characterization

M Yu, S Stott, M Toner, S Maheswaran… - Journal of Cell …, 2011 - rupress.org
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) shed from primary and metastatic cancers are admixed with
blood components and are thus rare, making their isolation and characterization a major …

Circulating tumor cells, disease progression, and survival in metastatic breast cancer

M Cristofanilli, GT Budd, MJ Ellis… - … England Journal of …, 2004 - Mass Medical Soc
Background We tested the hypothesis that the level of circulating tumor cells can predict
survival in metastatic breast cancer. Methods In a prospective, multicenter study, we tested …