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Article: The Significance of Circulating Tumor Cells in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Real-Time Monitoring and Moving Targets for Cancer Therapy

TitleThe Significance of Circulating Tumor Cells in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Real-Time Monitoring and Moving Targets for Cancer Therapy
Authors
Keywordscirculating tumor cells
hepatocellular carcinoma
EMT
metastasis
cancer stem cells
Issue Date2020
PublisherMDPI AG. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/cancers/
Citation
Cancers, 2020, v. 12 n. 7, p. article no. 1734 How to Cite?
AbstractHepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is ranked as the sixth most common cancer around the world. With the emergence of the state-of-the-art modalities lately, such as liver transplantation, image-guided ablation, and chemoembolization, the death rate is still high due to high metastasis rate after therapy. Observation by biannual ultrasonography allows effective diagnosis at an early stage for candidates with no extrahepatic metastasis, but its effectiveness still remains unsatisfactory. Developing a new test with improved effectiveness and specificity is urgently needed for HCC diagnosis, especially for patients after first line therapy. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are a small sub-population of tumor cells in human peripheral blood, they release from the primary tumor and invade into the blood circulatory system, thereby residing into the distal tissues and survive. As CTCs have specific and aggressive properties, they can evade from immune defenses, induce gene alterations, and modulate signal transductions. Ultimately, CTCs can manipulate tumor behaviors and patient reactions to anti-tumor treatment. Given the fact that in HCC blood is present around the immediate vicinity of the tumor, which allows thousands of CTCs to release into the blood circulation daily, so CTCs are considered to be the main cause for HCC occurrence, and are also a pivotal factor for HCC prognosis. In this review, we highlight the characteristics and enrichment strategies of CTCs, and focus on the use of CTCs for tumor evaluation and management in patients with HCC.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/284276
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2023 Impact Factor: 4.5
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.391
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dc.contributor.authorCHEN, F-
dc.contributor.authorZhong, Z-
dc.contributor.authorTan, HY-
dc.contributor.authorWang, N-
dc.contributor.authorFeng, Y-
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-20T05:57:26Z-
dc.date.available2020-07-20T05:57:26Z-
dc.date.issued2020-
dc.identifier.citationCancers, 2020, v. 12 n. 7, p. article no. 1734-
dc.identifier.issn2072-6694-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/284276-
dc.description.abstractHepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is ranked as the sixth most common cancer around the world. With the emergence of the state-of-the-art modalities lately, such as liver transplantation, image-guided ablation, and chemoembolization, the death rate is still high due to high metastasis rate after therapy. Observation by biannual ultrasonography allows effective diagnosis at an early stage for candidates with no extrahepatic metastasis, but its effectiveness still remains unsatisfactory. Developing a new test with improved effectiveness and specificity is urgently needed for HCC diagnosis, especially for patients after first line therapy. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are a small sub-population of tumor cells in human peripheral blood, they release from the primary tumor and invade into the blood circulatory system, thereby residing into the distal tissues and survive. As CTCs have specific and aggressive properties, they can evade from immune defenses, induce gene alterations, and modulate signal transductions. Ultimately, CTCs can manipulate tumor behaviors and patient reactions to anti-tumor treatment. Given the fact that in HCC blood is present around the immediate vicinity of the tumor, which allows thousands of CTCs to release into the blood circulation daily, so CTCs are considered to be the main cause for HCC occurrence, and are also a pivotal factor for HCC prognosis. In this review, we highlight the characteristics and enrichment strategies of CTCs, and focus on the use of CTCs for tumor evaluation and management in patients with HCC.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherMDPI AG. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/cancers/-
dc.relation.ispartofCancers-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.subjectcirculating tumor cells-
dc.subjecthepatocellular carcinoma-
dc.subjectEMT-
dc.subjectmetastasis-
dc.subjectcancer stem cells-
dc.titleThe Significance of Circulating Tumor Cells in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Real-Time Monitoring and Moving Targets for Cancer Therapy-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailZhong, Z: zfzhong@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.emailTan, HY: hyhtan@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.emailWang, N: ckwang@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.emailFeng, Y: yfeng@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityWang, N=rp02075-
dc.identifier.authorityFeng, Y=rp00466-
dc.description.naturepublished_or_final_version-
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/cancers12071734-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85087118639-
dc.identifier.hkuros311479-
dc.identifier.volume12-
dc.identifier.issue7-
dc.identifier.spagearticle no. 1734-
dc.identifier.epagearticle no. 1734-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000557169000001-
dc.publisher.placeSwitzerland-
dc.identifier.issnl2072-6694-

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