Subclassification of prostate cancer circulating tumor cells by nuclear size reveals very small nuclear circulating tumor cells in patients with visceral metastases

Abstract

Although enumeration of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) has shown some clinical value, the pool of CTCs contains a mixture of cells that contains additional information that can be extracted. The authors subclassified CTCs by shape features focusing on nuclear size and related this with clinical information.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
May 14, 2015
Source ID
10.1002/cncr.29455

Entities

People

  • An‐jou Liang
  • Daniel J. Luthringer
  • Edwin M Posadas
  • Elisabeth Hodara
  • Haiyen E. Zhau
  • Hao Ho
  • Hsian‐rong Tseng
  • Jake Lichterman
  • Jiaoti Huang
  • Jie‐fu Chen
  • Ker‐chau Li
  • Leland W. K. Chung
  • Mitch A. Garcia
  • Rafi S. Ahmed
  • Shang‐fu Chen
  • Shuang Hou
  • Yang Zhang
  • Yi‐tsung Lu
  • Zunfu Ke

Organizations

  • Academia Sinica
  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China
  • Prostate Cancer Foundation
  • Sun Yat-sen University
  • United States Department of Defense
  • University of California, Los Angeles

Tags

Readers

  • Prostate Cancer Biology.
  • Regression Analysis.