title: Circulating tumor cells in prostate cancer diagnosis and monitoring: an appraisal of clinical potential.
abstract: Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have emerged as a viable solution to the lack of tumor tissue availability for patients with a variety of solid tumors, including prostate cancer. Different approaches have been used to capture this tumor cell population and several of these techniques have been used to assess the potential role of CTCs as a biological marker to predict treatment efficacy and clinical outcome. CTCs are now considered a strong tool to understand the molecular characteristics of prostate cancer, and to be used and analyzed as a 'liquid biopsy' in the attempt to grasp the biological portrait of the disease in the individual patient.
authors.affiliation: Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology and the Weill Cornell Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Galletti
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Portella
authors.forename: Scott T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Tagawa
authors.forename: Brian J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Kirby
authors.forename: Paraskevi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Giannakakou
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Nanus
mesh_terms: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating / Q000473:pathology*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000191:economics* / Q000473:pathology*
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor