As the presence of tumor cells circulating in the blood is associated with systemic disease and shortened survival, the establishment of a method to detect circulating tumor cells (CTCs ...

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. Development of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) technologies holds promise for a better understanding of the fundamental ...

In prostate cancer, reliable markers of disease status are important for selecting and monitoring treatment. Two recent studies have shown that increased levels of circulating cells predict worse ...

The researchers took this image of a tumor using immunofluorescence, a technique that allows them to stain tissue sections with fluorescently-labeled antibodies or dyes. Blue indicates the cell ...

Human circulating tumor DNA “was overall consistently shorter than the fragment length of normal cell-free DNA,” the authors wrote in their paper. The findings could help improve cancer diagnosis and ...

The tumor microenvironment — the complex environment that surrounds cancer cells — is often deprived of nutrients and oxygen, particularly in hard-to-treat cancers like pancreatic cancer.

Tumor cells circulating in the blood are the germ cells of breast cancer metastases. They are very rare and have not been propagated in the culture dish until now, which made research into therapy ...

Imagine a super-charged immune cell that can launch a focused attack on stubborn solid tumors -- a smart fighter that destroys cancer cells for days without tiring. Biomedical engineers have made ...

Somewhere in the body of a patient, a small clump of cells, growing undetected, has begun to form a tumor. It has yet to cause pain or visible symptoms of illness. Several months from now, or perhaps ...