Journal of International Oncology 2013;40(10):772-774

doi:10.3760/cma.j.issn.1673-422X.2013.10.016

Study of circulating tumor cells in lung cancer

Junning LIU ; Shuai ZHANG ; Yan YU

Keywords

Circulating tumor cells; Lung neoplasms; Neoplasms metastasis

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are present in the peripheral blood,and play an important role in the recurrence and metastasis of lung cancer.As the researches about CTCs and targeted therapy move along,it is found that CTCs can be used as a liquid tumor tissue to guide clinical treatment and have a certain significance in the clinical staging and prognosis evaluation of lung cancer.