Detecting Circulating Tumor Cells Through the Skin

Today ’s methods of detecting circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in blood are hampered by poor sensitivity, which limits the so-called liquid biopsies’ usefulness for catching low-level CTCs present before metastasis, when prognosis is better. A new photoacoustic liquid biopsy approach that peers through the skin was more sensitive than existing assays in detecting CTCs in patients with melanoma.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research