title: After clouds sun again shines on circulating tumor cells research.
abstract: In the Science issue of first February 2013 Yu M et al. characterized epithelial and mesenchymal circulating tumor cells (CTC) by RNA-in situ hybridization. In this editorial we comment their results and emphasize the different CTC subpopulations arising from epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT).
authors.affiliation: ASTRALAB, Clinical Laboratory, 7-11 Avenue de Lattre de Tassigny, 87000 Limoges, France.
authors.forename: Guislaine
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Barriere
authors.affiliation: ASTRALAB, Clinical Laboratory, 7-11 Avenue de Lattre de Tassigny, 87000 Limoges, France.
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rigaud
keywords: Cancer stem like cells; Circulating tumor cells (CTC); epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT); mesenchymal epithelial transition (MET)