Pharmacogenetics is the theme of this month’s edition of Drug Discovery Today Editor’s Choice. This coincides with the Drug Discovery Today special issue, ‘Pharmacogenetics and Stratified Medicine’.
27 September, 2011
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are cells that ‘escape’ from primary tumor cells and migrate into the bloodstream, where they circulate through the body. CTCs were first identified in the 1980s as cells that had the morphology of tumor cells but were found in the blood. Over the past two decades technological innovations have eased the detection and analysis of CTCs. The resulting investigations of CTCs are an important area of clinical research because they are demonstrating that CTCs have potential clinical value as warning signals of cancer progression.
27 September, 2011