PRACTICAL ONCOLOGY JOURNAL ›› 2018, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (2): 169-173.doi: 10.11904/j.issn.1002-3070.2018.02.016

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Clinical efficacy and practicability analysis of circulating tumor cells

XU Xunzheng, ZHANG Haogang, QIAO Pengfei, WANG Fujing   

  1. Department of General Surgery,The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University,Harbin 150081,China
  • Received:2017-12-07 Online:2018-04-28 Published:2018-05-09

Abstract: Circulating tumor cells(CTCs)are a special type of biomarker that can be used as a diagnostic tool to predict the prognosis of multiple tumors.At present,although circulating tumor cells have not been full clinically application,studies on circulating tumor cells have shown high clinical efficacy,especially in the fields of breast cancer,lung cancer,prostate cancer and colorectal cancer.This article reviews the research progress of circulating tumor cells in metastatic cancer and non-metastatic cancer,analyzes the clinical efficacy and practicability of circulating tumor cells.

Key words: Circulating tumor cells, Clinical use, Clinical efficacy

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