Revisiting the need to detect circulating tumor cells
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 06:42
in Health & Medicine
PHILADELPHIA (March 16, 2010) -- One of the most dangerous characteristics of cancer is its ability to metastasize, or spread through the body. For this reason, oncologists have a major need for better tests to detect cells that break away from primary tumors to travel to other parts of the body.