Circulating tumor cells: from new biological insights to clinical practice

X Gu, S Wei, X Lv - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
The primary reason for high mortality rates among cancer patients is metastasis, where
tumor cells migrate through the bloodstream from the original site to other parts of the body …

Recent advances in liquid biopsy technologies for cancer biomarker detection

N Soda, K Clack, MJA Shiddiky - Sensors & Diagnostics, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Gene mutation is associated with cancer and the dissemination of circulating biomarkers
through the blood represents a vital transitional step that exemplifies the shift from localized …

Determination of PD-L1 expression in circulating tumor cells of NSCLC patients and correlation with response to PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors

M Janning, F Kobus, A Babayan, H Wikman… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) hold great potential to answer key questions of how non-
small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) evolves and develops resistance upon anti-PD-1/PD-L1 …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging role of circulating tumor cells in immunotherapy

A Rzhevskiy, A Kapitannikova, P Malinina… - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Over the last few years, immunotherapy, in particular, immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy,
has revolutionized the treatment of several types of cancer. At the same time, the uptake in …

Preclinical models to study patient-derived circulating tumor cells and metastasis

KN Suvilesh, Y Manjunath, K Pantel, JT Kaifi - Trends in Cancer, 2023 - cell.com
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) that are detached from the tumor can be precursors of
metastasis. The majority of studies focus on enumeration of CTCs from patient blood to …

Going with the flow: modeling the tumor microenvironment using microfluidic technology

H Xie, JW Appelt, RW Jenkins - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The clinical success of cancer immunotherapy targeting immune
checkpoints (eg, PD-1, CTLA-4) has ushered in a new era of cancer therapeutics aimed at …

Single-circulating tumor cell whole genome amplification to unravel cancer heterogeneity and actionable biomarkers

T Khan, TM Becker, JW Po, W Chua, Y Ma - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The field of single-cell analysis has advanced rapidly in the last decade and is providing
new insights into the characterization of intercellular genetic heterogeneity and complexity …

Dual‐isolation and profiling of circulating tumor cells and cancer exosomes from blood samples with melanoma using immunoaffinity‐based microfluidic interfaces

YT Kang, T Hadlock, TW Lo, E Purcell… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Melanoma is among the most aggressive cancers, and its rate of incidence continues to
grow. Early detection of melanoma has been hampered due to the lack of promising markers …

Current progress in the clinical use of circulating tumor cells as prognostic biomarkers

KT Jin, XY Chen, HR Lan, SB Wang… - Cancer …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The process of metastasis is characterized by the shedding of tumor cells into the
bloodstream, where they are transported to other parts of the body to seed new tumors …

Pre‐analytical factors affecting the establishment of a single tube assay for multiparameter liquid biopsy detection in melanoma patients

S Schneegans, L Lück, K Besler, L Bluhm… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The combination of liquid biomarkers from a single blood tube can provide more
comprehensive information on tumor development and progression in cancer patients …