Correlation Research of Thymidine Synthase Expression in Circulating Tumor Cell and Clinical Characteristics of Colon Cancer.

CONCLUSIONS: CTC positive rate is a promising index for the diagnosis of colon cancer. The lack of TYMS in CTC makes EMT cells prone to becoming epithelial-like cells, and TYMS silence in CTC indicates that the tumor is in the left colon. PMID: 32826238 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science - Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Tags: Ann Clin Lab Sci Source Type: research