Abstract:
:Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the blood of cancer patients have received increasing attention as new diagnostic tool enabling 'liquid biopsies'. In contrast to the wealth of descriptive studies demonstrating the clinical relevance of CTCs as biomarkers, the extremely low concentration of CTCs in the peripheral blood of most cancer patients challenges further functional studies. This article discusses the current possibilities to enrich and, in particular, detect viable CTCs with emphasis on the EPithelial ImmunoSPOT technology. This functional assay detects viable CTCs at the single-cell level and has been used on hundreds of patients with different tumor types including epithelial tumors (breast, prostate and colon cancer) and melanomas. Moreover, the article summarizes recent advances in the in vitro and in vivo expansion of CTCs from cancer patients. These functional analyses will contribute to identifying the biological properties of metastatic cells and reveal new therapeutic targets against disseminating cancer cells.
journal_name
Expert Rev Mol Diagnjournal_title
Expert review of molecular diagnosticsauthors
Alix-Panabières C,Pantel Kdoi
10.1586/14737159.2015.1091729subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2015-01-01 00:00:00pages
1411-7issue
11eissn
1473-7159issn
1744-8352journal_volume
15pub_type
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