Recent advances in microfluidic platforms applied in cancer metastasis: Circulating tumor cells'(CTCs) isolation and tumor‐on‐a‐chip

Z Lin, G Luo, W Du, T Kong, C Liu, Z Liu - Small, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer remains the leading cause of death worldwide despite the enormous efforts that are
made in the development of cancer biology and anticancer therapeutic treatment …

[HTML][HTML] The prognostic role of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in lung cancer

J Kapeleris, A Kulasinghe, ME Warkiani, I Vela… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Lung cancer affects over 1. 8 million people worldwide and is the leading cause of cancer
related mortality globally. Currently, diagnosis of lung cancer involves a combination of …

The prognostic significance of circulating tumor cells in head and neck and non‐small‐cell lung cancer

A Kulasinghe, J Kapeleris, R Kimberley… - Cancer …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Tumor biopsy is the gold standard for the assessment of clinical biomarkers for treatment.
However, tumors change dynamically in response to therapy, and there remains a need for …

[HTML][HTML] Platforms for single-cell collection and analysis

L Valihrach, P Androvic, M Kubista - International journal of molecular …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Single-cell analysis has become an established method to study cell heterogeneity and for
rare cell characterization. Despite the high cost and technical constraints, applications are …

Circulating tumour cells: a broad perspective

V Akpe, TH Kim, CL Brown… - Journal of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Circulating tumour cells (CTCs) have recently been identified as valuable biomarkers for
diagnostic and prognostic evaluations, as well for monitoring therapeutic responses to …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative performance of different methods for circulating tumor cell enrichment in metastatic breast cancer patients

A Drucker, EM Teh, R Kostyleva, D Rayson… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The isolation and analysis of circulating tumor cells (CTC) has the potential to provide
minimally invasive diagnostic, prognostic and predictive information. Widespread clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Circulating tumor cells as liquid biopsy markers in cancer patients

DJ Smit, K Pantel - Molecular Aspects of Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, novel methods for enrichment and identification of cancer cells
circulating in the blood have been established. Blood-based detection of cancer cells and …

[HTML][HTML] Capture of circulating tumour cell clusters using straight microfluidic chips

A Kulasinghe, J Zhou, L Kenny, I Papautsky… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Circulating tumour cells (CTCs) are the metastatic precursors to distant disease in head and
neck cancers (HNCs). Whilst the prognostic and predictive value of single CTCs have been …

[HTML][HTML] Enrichment of circulating head and neck tumour cells using spiral microfluidic technology

A Kulasinghe, THP Tran, T Blick, K O'Byrne… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Whilst locoregional control of head and neck cancers (HNCs) has improved over the last
four decades, long-term survival has remained largely unchanged. A possible reason for this …

[HTML][HTML] PD-L1 expressing circulating tumour cells in head and neck cancers

A Kulasinghe, C Perry, L Kenny, ME Warkiani… - BMC cancer, 2017 - Springer
Background Blockade of the PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint pathway is emerging as a
promising immunotherapeutic approach for the management and treatment of head and …