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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2006 98(17):1180-1181; doi:10.1093/jnci/djj383
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New Technologies Aim To Find Cancer in the Blood

Mary Beckman

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Like colonists sailing in search of a land where they can settle and prosper, rogue cancer cells ride the bloodstream in search of new tissues where they can take root.

Although not all the wanderers will form their own metastatic dominions, oncologists are beginning to exploit these cells as a form of bloodstream biopsy that might signal a problem more quickly than waiting for the disease to show up on scans. And other researchers are developing new ways to find and characterize these rare cells—maybe just a few thousand in one person—called circulating tumor cells (CTCs). This information might help researchers begin to understand metastatic cancers.


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