Talk:Circulating tumor cell

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The numeric left scale is confusing. Should for example CTC's be "10^3 per L" ((ie "10^3 / L"). HalFonts (talk) 17:47, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

I agree. The figure suggests that we would only find 1 CTC in 1000 L of blood which doesn't make any sense. Triesault (talk) 00:13, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

How are they formed and what happens to them

A news article in 2012 said it is not know where they come from or what they mean. - If known now could we add to the article ? - Rod57 (talk) 18:32, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Could add more on characterisation and something on heterogeneity

More heterogenous CTCs seems to predict poor prognosis for prostate cancer. Liquid Biopsy Cell Diversity Could Indicate Poor Prostate Cancer Prognosis - Rod57 (talk) 14:10, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Major expansion of this article is needed

It is both amazing and appalling that the subject of CTC (almost the same as Liquid Biopsy), having a game-changing potential for cancer diagnosis (thus treatment, too) is covered by such a brief article. Interestingly, this subject is almost completely unknown abroad, which is reflected on the list of the related articles in other languages. While needle biopsy often seeds live cancer cells into the bloodstream, it produces differing results for slightly different locations in the tumor, and cannot be repeated often, at the same time Liquid Biopsy is exactly the opposite: it does NOT seed cancer, it identifies large variety of the cancer cells, and can be repeated frequently for monitoring the progression of the disease. How can this article be classified as "low importance"?! This is a huge part of the future of cancer research, diagnosis and treatment. 45.51.77.190 (talk) 22:02, 4 May 2016 (UTC)Jerry C.45.51.77.190 (talk) 22:02, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

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Format question

Hi all, new contributor here. As I was adding some information about clustered CTCs, the list format of the types of CTCs didn't seem to fit. I tried to make a minimal amount of changes, leaving the rest of the items in the list. I hope this seems like a reasonable approach and addition. Thanks! MJ-3500 (talk) 05:23, 27 November 2017 (UTC)