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Tumor-Educated Platelets as Liquid Biopsy in Cancer Patients.

Cancer cell ·Vol. 28 ·No. 5 ·2015-11-09 ·Pages 552-554

Joosse SA, Pantel K

Abstract

Real-time monitoring of changes in cells or cell products released from malignant lesions into the blood has opened new diagnostic avenues ("liquid biopsy"). In this issue of Cancer Cell, Best and colleagues describe that tumor-associated blood platelets provide specific information on the location and molecular composition of the primary tumor.

MeSH Terms

Biomarkers, Tumor/genetics Blood Platelets/metabolism Female Humans Male Neoplasms/genetics Signal Transduction/genetics

Chemicals

Biomarkers, Tumor

Authors & Affiliations

2 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Joosse Simon A

Department of Tumor Biology, Center of Experimental Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany.

Pantel Klaus

Department of Tumor Biology, Center of Experimental Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address: pantel@uke.de.

Article Info

Journal

Cancer cell

Abbr.

Cancer Cell

ISSN

1878-3686

DOI

10.1016/j.ccell.2015.10.007

pantel@uke.de

Published

2015-11-09

Pages

552-554

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

101130617

Subset

Corrections

CommentOn

PMID: 26525104

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PubMed source DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2015.10.007 View journal details

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