Circulating tumor cells in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: Feasibility of detection and quantitation.
Tomoyuki KawadaHideyuki TakahashiKoichi SakakuraShota IdaIkko MitoMinoru ToyodaKazuaki ChikamatsuPublished in: Head & neck (2017)
The CTCs were successfully detected and quantified in patients with HNSCC by using a low-pressure filtration system equipped with precision microfilters. Further studies using a larger number of patient samples and/or molecular analysis of CTCs are warranted.
Keyphrases
- circulating tumor cells
- ms ms
- case report
- circulating tumor
- mass spectrometry
- loop mediated isothermal amplification
- liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry
- label free
- real time pcr
- case control
- liquid chromatography
- high performance liquid chromatography
- tandem mass spectrometry
- solid phase extraction
- high resolution