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Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells Table 1 Summary of CTC counts in 7.5 mL of blood from patients (
) with various types of metastatic carcinomas. It represents the percentage of patients (%) from the total group of patients (
) above a certain CTC cut-off, detected with the CellSearch System.
% (
) ≥ 1 % (
) ≥ 2 % (
) ≥ 3 % (
) ≥ 5 % (
) ≥ 10 % (
) ≥ 50 % (
) ≥ 100 References Subject Healthy 2 (330) 0.3 (330) 0 (185) 0 (330) 0 (330) 0 (330) 0 (330) [4 , 13 , 47 –49 ] Nonmalignant 5 (398) 1 (398) 0 (101) 0 (101) 0 (101) 0 (101) 0 (101) [4 , 47 ] Metastatic cancer type Bladder 47 (53) 35 (20) — 25 (53) 5 (20) 0 (20) 0 (53) [50 , 51 ] Breast 55 (200) 53 (562) 33 (91) 38 (671) 32 (562) 18 (268) 12 (562) [4 , 47 , 52 –55 ] Colorectal 48 (545) 34 (455) 32 (676) 18 (455) 12 (455) 0 (42) 0 (455) [8 , 56 –59 ] Gastric 67 (27) 56 (27) 41 (27) 26 (27) 19 (27) 4 (27) 4 (27) [13 ] Lung, non-small cell 46 (57) 28 (117) 20 (20) 11 (57) 10 (20) 5 (20) 5 (20) [53 , 60 , 61 ] Lung, small cell 95 (38) 89 (62) 79 (38) 79 (38) 74 (38) 53 (38) 47 (38) [12 , 62 ] Ovarian — 14 (216) — — — — — [15 ] Pancreatic 35 (72) 19 (72) 15 (72) 8 (72) 7 (72) 3 (72) 3 (72) [63 , 64 ] Prostate 60 (149) 80 (40) 66 (95) 59 (314) 53 (40) 33 (40) 18 (40) [10 , 48 , 49 , 53 , 65 , 66 ]
