The isolation and detection of CTCs plays an important role as a diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic implications.

CTC’s have clinical uses in the following:

Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have been found in the patients with various forms of metastatic carcinomas.

CTCs are cancer cells originated from solid tumor dispersed in the peripheral blood. It is generally explained that these cells are detached from the primary or secondary tumors of patients with advanced cancer prior to detection in the blood circulation. CTCs number is considered very less, with an estimated number of one in 100 million to one in a billion blood cells.

Scientists have discovered a test that can revolutionize the way doctors evaluate and treat a cancer patient. This technology involves the detection and genetic assay of circulating tumor cells in the bloodstream. Understanding circulating tumor cells is critically important since it is the spread of cancer to other parts of the body—and not the primary cancer—that is often responsible for the death of a person with cancer.

Here, we’ll examine circulating tumor cell and the great potential this technology offers to advance the medical approach to cancer. The basic circulating tumor cell (CTC) tests will provide important data as it relates to how an individual’s cancer is treated.

Art of Healing Cancer partners with RGCC International GmbH for detecting early signs of developing cancer by monitoring of existing cancer. It helps in taking decision for Adjuvant chemotherapy Prognosis – providing information about the risk of recurrence and relapse cases. A more advanced test of the CTC test is also available by providing one’s blood to RGCC laboratory, where a genetic analysis is performed to identify the expression of therapeutic targets, drug sensitivity (Chemosensitivity) and chemo-resistance markers unique to an individual’s circulating tumor cells leading to personalised cancer treatment.