Not exact matches
For example, cancer
cells floated above denser blood
cells, which could
allow clinicians to spot rare
circulating tumor cells in a patient sample.
Now, researchers reporting in the
Cell Press journal Chemistry & Biology have developed a new method that
allows investigators to label and track single
tumor cells circulating in the blood.
Researchers have for the first time developed a technique that coats anticancer drugs in membranes made from a patient's own platelets,
allowing the drugs to last longer in the body and attack both primary cancer
tumors and the
circulating tumor cells that can cause a cancer to metastasize.
Analysis of
circulating cell - free DNA (cfDNA) reveals reversion mutation heterogeneity not discernable from a single solid -
tumor biopsy and potentially
allows monitoring for the emergence of PARPi resistance.