Short-Term Ex Vivo Culture of CTCs from Advance Breast Cancer Patients: Clinical Implications.
Nuria Carmona-UleMiriam González-CondeCarmen AbuínJuan F CuevaPatricia PalaciosRafael LópezClotilde CostaAna Belén Dávila-IbáñezPublished in: Cancers (2021)
the cultivability of CTCs is a predictive factor. Furthermore, the subset of cells capable of growing ex vivo show stem or mesenchymal features and may represent the CTC population with metastatic potential in vivo.