Journal des biomarqueurs moléculaires et du diagnostic

Isolation of Circulating Tumor Cells in Patients with Thyroid Cancer

Abstract

Francesca Salvianti, Cinzia Pupilli and Pamela Pinzani

Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) are considered a liquid biopsy of solid tumors, reflecting the disease complexity at any stage of cancer progression. CTCs, in fact, represent a surrogate material of the tumor which can be obtained by a minimally invasive blood draw and used for disease monitoring and orienting therapeutic decisions, but their detection and characterization are technically challenging.