Study on survival mechanisms of circulating tumor cells and identification of metastatic biomarkers for breast cancer

• Main Author: Fu, Afu
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Bioengineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/65977
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Breast cancer remains curable until the metastatic cancer cells disseminate beyond the regional lymph nodes. The 5-year relative survival rate of stage IV breast cancer is less than 22%. Therefore, strategies to prevent the dissemination of breast cancer cells into bloodstream, eliminate the circula...