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SUBMITTER: Au SH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5446400 | biostudies-other | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Au Sam H SH Edd Jon J Stoddard Amy E AE Wong Keith H K KHK Fachin Fabio F Maheswaran Shyamala S Haber Daniel A DA Stott Shannon L SL Kapur Ravi R Toner Mehmet M
Scientific reports 20170526 1
Circulating tumor cell clusters (CTC clusters) are potent initiators of metastasis and potentially useful clinical markers for patients with cancer. Although there are numerous devices developed to isolate individual circulating tumor cells from blood, these devices are ineffective at capturing CTC clusters, incapable of separating clusters from single cells and/or cause cluster damage or dissociation during processing. The only device currently able to specifically isolate CTC clusters from sin ...[more]