Current status of CTCs as liquid biopsy in lung cancer and future directions

Frontiers in Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Zhuo ^a   Ramnath, Nithya ^b,c   Nagrath, Sunitha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Circulating tumor cells; Liquid biopsy; Lung cancer; Non small cell lung cancer; Prognostic biomarkers; Review of literature; Small cell lung cancer

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CELL SEPARATION; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; METASTASIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PREDICTION; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; REVIEW;

EID: 84944744413     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2234943X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2015.00209     Document Type: Review

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