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Future of circulating tumor cells in the melanoma clinical and research laboratory settings.
Cancer letters - 28 Apr 2017
De Souza Luisa M, Robertson Bailey M, Robertson Gavin P
Abstract excerpt
Circulating tumor cells (CTC) have become a field of interest for oncologists based on the premise that they constitute the underpinning for metastatic dissemination. The lethal nature of cancer is no longer attributed to solid tumor formation, but rather to the process of metastasis; shifting the focus of current studies towards the isolation and identification of metastatic progenitors, such as CTCs. CTCs...
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