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A Quantitative Perspective On Surface Marker Selection For The Isolation Of Functional Tumor Cells, Calvin F. Cahall, Jacob L. Lilly, Edward A. Hirschowitz, Brad J. Berron
A Quantitative Perspective On Surface Marker Selection For The Isolation Of Functional Tumor Cells, Calvin F. Cahall, Jacob L. Lilly, Edward A. Hirschowitz, Brad J. Berron
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Much effort has gone into developing fluid biopsies of patient peripheral blood for the monitoring of metastatic cancers. One common approach is to isolate and analyze tumor cells in the peripheral blood. Widespread clinical implementation of this approach has been hindered by the current choice of targeting epithelial markers known to be highly variable in primary tumor sites. Here, we review current antigen-based tumor cell isolation strategies and offer biological context for commonly studied cancer surface markers. Expression levels of the most common markers are quantitated for three breast cancer and two non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) lineage models. These …