Liquid Biopsies in Solid Tumors

1. Blood-Based Diagnostics in Solid Tumors: An Overview
Angela Toss, Massimo Cristofanilli

2. Circulating Tumour Cells in Primary Disease: The Seed for Metastasis
Noam Falbel Pondé, Michail Ignatiadis

3. Enumeration and Molecular Analysis of CTCs in Metastatic Disease: The Breast Cancer Model
Cleo Parisi, Evi Lianidou

4. Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) and Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs): The Traveling Metastasis
Michal Mego, James Reuben, Sendurai A. Mani

5. Detecting and Monitoring Circulating Stromal Cells from Solid Tumors Using Blood-Based Biopsies in the Twenty-First Century: Have Circulating Stromal Cells Come of Age?
Daniel L. Adams, Massimo Cristofanilli

6. Circulating Free Tumor DNA (ctDNA): The Real-Time Liquid Biopsy
Kelly Kyker-Snowman, Ben Ho Park

7. CTCs and ctDNA: Two Tales of a Complex Biology
Paul W. Dempsey

8. Exosomes: The Next Small Thing
Vincent J. O’Neill

Avainsanat: Biomedicine, Cancer Research