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SUBMITTER: Huang Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5858171 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Huang Qinqin Q Wang Fu-Bing FB Yuan Chun-Hui CH He Zhaobo Z Rao Lang L Cai Bo B Chen Bolei B Jiang Susu S Li Zhiqiang Z Chen Jincao J Liu Wei W Guo Feng F Ao Zheng Z Chen Shi S Zhao Xing-Zhong XZ
Theranostics 20180207 6
<b>Background:</b> Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are a burgeoning topic in cancer biomarker discovery research with minimal invasive blood draws. CTCs can be used as potential biomarkers for disease prognosis, early cancer diagnosis and pharmacodynamics. However, the extremely low abundance of CTCs limits their clinical utility because of technical challenges such as the isolation and subsequent detailed molecular and functional characterization of rare CTCs from patient blood samples. <b>Metho ...[more]