"The laser emission images are also different ... we are the first to use it for clinical studies on cancers and circulating tumor cells," Fan said. Moving forward, the group is interested ...

The heart drug digoxin could potentially be combined with existing cancer therapies to prevent the spread of tumors, an early trial suggests. But questions remain.

The team reported on the study results in Nature Medicine, in a paper titled, “Digoxin for reduction of circulating tumor cell cluster size in metastatic breast cancer: a proof-of-concept trial ...

An existing cardiac drug has now been found to reduce the risk of metastasis by dissolving circulating clusters of breast cancer cells in patients. Radiation and chemotherapy are effective at ...

This is because the primary tumor continuously releases cancer cells into the blood. These circulating tumor cells (CTCs) can join together into small clusters of up to a dozen cells and settle in ...

Tumor cells circulating in the blood are the “germ cells” of breast cancer metastases. They are very rare and could not be propagated in the culture dish until now, which made research into ...