Culture System for Isolating Circulating Tumor Cells

National Taiwan University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Early Detection of Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03843450

201811053RINA

Details and patient eligibility

About

This culture system utilizes the special affinity difference of biomedical material coating for different cells to achieve the effect of isolating cancer cells from the blood sample. The coating of the system has the characteristic that to make the WBCs adhesion, but the cancer cells in the blood sample suspend in the culture medium, which achieves the effect of separating cancer cells from the blood. The supernatant with the cancer cells can further be isolated from the cultural system for related analysis and detection to achieve early diagnosis and screening.

Enrollment: 90 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Polycythemia patients are between the ages of 20 and 70.
2. Willing to sign the consent form under the informed consent.

Inclusion Criteria:

Exclusion criteria

1. Vulnerable Subjects included minors, prisoners, aborigines, pregnant women, people with mental disorders, students, and subordinates, etc.