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Extremely rare circulating tumor cell (CTC) clusters are both increasingly appreciated as highly metastatic precursors and virtually unexplored. Technologies are primarily designed to detect single CTCs and of...
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Open AccessLabel-free microfluidic enrichment of cancer cells from non-cancer cells in ascites
The isolation of a patient's metastatic cancer cells is the first, enabling step toward treatment of that patient using modern personalized medicine techniques. Whereas traditional standard-of-care approaches ...
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Open AccessMachine learning predicts individual cancer patient responses to therapeutic drugs with high accuracy
Precision or personalized cancer medicine is a clinical approach that strives to customize therapies based upon the genomic profiles of individual patient tumors. Machine learning (ML) is a computational metho...
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Open AccessEvidence for the importance of post-transcriptional regulatory changes in ovarian cancer progression and the contribution of miRNAs
High-throughput technologies have identified significant changes in patterns of mRNA expression over cancer development but the functional significance of these changes often rests upon the assumption that obs...
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Open AccessHighly-accurate metabolomic detection of early-stage ovarian cancer
High performance mass spectrometry was employed to interrogate the serum metabolome of early-stage ovarian cancer (OC) patients and age-matched control women. The resulting spectral features were used to estab...