Problems and prospects of circulating tumor cells in clinical application / 中华检验医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have shown a prognostic value in clinical tumor diagnosis, CTCs and related liquid biopsy technique have become a new hot focus for clinical diagnosis of tumor study in recent years.This review evaluates the limitation of CTCs′ applications in clinical studies and makes some suggestions for the future clinical application in order to promote the development of liquid biopsy technique.