Towards the Biological Understanding of CTC: Capture Technologies, Definitions and Potential to Create Metastasis
Circulating Tumor Cells (CTC) are rare cells originated from tumors that travel into the blood stream, extravasate to different organs of which only a small fraction will develop into metastasis. The presence of CTC enumerated with the CellSearch system is associated with a relative short survival a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2013-12-01
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| Series: | Cancers |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/5/4/1619 |