ArticleFrontiers in oncology2023
Association of circulating tumor cells and
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- A revolutionary era in advancing precision immuno-oncology; role of circulating tumor cells.The journal of liquid biopsy · 2024Review
- Evaluating Circulating Biomarkers for Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Tumor Monitoring in Pediatric Sarcomas: Recent Advances and Future Directions.Biomolecules · 2024Review
- A comprehensive overview of liquid biopsy applications in pediatric solid tumors.NPJ precision oncology · 2024Review
- TROP2 is highly expressed in triple-negative breast cancer CTCs and is a potential marker for epithelial mesenchymal CTCs.Molecular therapy. Oncology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background: Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have been identified as a prognostic biomarker of tumors such as breast cancer and nasopharyngeal carcinoma, because they are obtained through a simple and noninvasive blood draw or liquid biopsy, but its clinical significance in osteosarcoma is still unclear. In this study, we analyzed the relationship between CTCs and clinicopathological features and discussed whether CTCs could be used as a biomarker for metastasis in osteosarcoma. Methods: We enrolled 50 osteosarcoma patients with Enneking Stage IIB and Stage III and detected CTCs in 5 ml of peripheral blood samples collected from patients using the Canpatrol Results: CTCs were detected in 86% (43/50) of the osteosarcoma patients. The CTC counts, especially the total CTCs and H-type CTCs, signifcantly differed between Enneking Stage IIB and Stage III patients ( Conclusion: This study demonstrates that the CTCs, especially the
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