Market has emerged as a rapidly expanding segment within the oncology diagnostics and liquid biopsy landscape. Circulating Tumor Cells are cancerous cells that detach from primary or metastatic tumors ...

Circulating tumor cells were first described in 1869 by Thomas Ashworth, an Australian pathologist who observed them in a peripheral blood sample taken from a patient with metastatic cancer. 1 They ...

We conducted a systematic meta-analysis of 30 studies involving 3,287 patients with postoperative NSCLC to evaluate the diagnostic performance of ctDNA-based MRD testing for recurrence detection and ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Biocept, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIOC), a leading provider of molecular diagnostic assays, products, and services, announces the signing of a non-exclusive licensing agreement for ...

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) refer to cancer cells that have broken off from a primary tumor. These tumor cells can travel through the blood in the circulatory system and lodge themselves in other ...

Glioblastoma (GBM) is an aggressive brain tumor characterized by marked intra- and inter-tumoral heterogeneity and inevitable recurrence. Although extracranial metastasis is rare, circulating tumor ...

Biomarker testing for 11 oncogenes at diagnosis enables personalized lung cancer treatment, moving away from a one-size-fits-all approach. Biomarkers serve diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive roles ...

An enigmatic type of circulating tumor cell called a dual-positive (DP) cell is associated with shorter survival time in patients with advanced breast cancer, according to a study led by investigators ...

A team led by investigators at the Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute has discovered that a particular marker on tumor cells circulating in the blood indicates whether a patient with lung cancer ...

An implantable scaffold and magnetic probes capture circulating tumor cells directly in the bloodstream, eliminating over 90% of captured cells in rabbits and goats. (Nanowerk Spotlight) A single ...