Sentences with phrase «of circulating tumor cells»

The first stage of the trial, which involved an analysis of circulating tumor cells from a single blood draw of several dozen patients, has demonstrated strong potential.

Immunicon Corporation (PI)($ 40,000 Total) 2001 - 2002 Longitudinal enumeration of circulating tumor cells in patients with metastatic breast carcinoma

Shown here is a cluster of circulating tumor cells (red) from a patient with breast cancer.

Among patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) fueled by ALK gene alterations who were being treated with crizotinib (Xalkori), a decrease in the number of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) harboring increased copies of the ALK gene over the first two months of treatment was associated with increased progression - free survival.

«Despite the identification of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and cell - free DNA (cfDNA) as biomarkers capable of providing clinically relevant information in cancer patients, at present their identification is not routinely used in clinical practice,» explains Silvia Morbelli, MD, PhD, of the IRCCS San Martino — IST National Cancer Research Institute and University of Genoa in Genoa, Italy.

Researchers have found a group of circulating tumor cells in prostate cancer patient blood samples which are linked to the spread of the disease, according to new research presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool.

«The method we describe in this paper is a step forward in the detection and isolation of circulating tumor cells in the body,» said Subra Suresh, one of the study's authors and president of Carnegie Mellon University.

Microvascular endothelial cells play a critical role in tumor progression and metastasis by forming capillary networks that encourage tumor growth and by promoting the attachment of circulating tumor cells to the vascular wall of distant tissues.

Ophir Vermish won the award for his talk on developing a new method to identify biomarkers of circulating tumors cells, which could potentially improve precision medicine.

Additionally, she is investigating the role of circulating tumor cells expressing these checkpoint molecules.

Bone marrow aspiration being somehow invasive, we then investigated whether the detection of circulating tumor cells (CTC) in the blood could be used as a biomarker of early tumor relapse or progression.

We conducted a meta - analysis in nonmetastatic breast cancer patients treated by neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT) to assess the clinical validity of circulating tumor cell (CTC) detection as a prognostic marker.

One of these very exciting projects is barcoding of genes and their functional products in single cells of circulating tumor cells, CTCs», said Afshin Ahmadian.