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Nanotechnology-Based Strategies for Early Cancer Diagnosis Using Circulating Tumor Cells as a Liquid Biopsy

Qinqin Huang1, Yin Wang1, Xingxiang Chen1, Yimeng Wang1, Zhiqiang Li1, Shiming Du2, Lianrong Wang1✉, Shi Chen1✉

1. Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery of Ministry of Education, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Brain Center, Zhongnan Hospital, and Medical Research Institute, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China;
2. Taihe Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, Hubei, 442000, China.

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Huang Q, Wang Y, Chen X, Wang Y, Li Z, Du S, Wang L, Chen S. Nanotechnology-Based Strategies for Early Cancer Diagnosis Using Circulating Tumor Cells as a Liquid Biopsy. Nanotheranostics 2018; 2(1):21-41. doi:10.7150/ntno.22091. https://www.ntno.org/v02p0021.htm
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Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are cancer cells that shed from a primary tumor and circulate in the bloodstream. As a form of “tumor liquid biopsy”, CTCs provide important information for the mechanistic investigation of cancer metastasis and the measurement of tumor genotype evolution during treatment and disease progression. However, the extremely low abundance of CTCs in the peripheral blood and the heterogeneity of CTCs make their isolation and characterization major technological challenges. Recently, nanotechnologies have been developed for sensitive CTC detection; such technologies will enable better cell and molecular characterization and open up a wide range of clinical applications, including early disease detection and evaluation of treatment response and disease progression. In this review, we summarize the nanotechnology-based strategies for CTC isolation, including representative nanomaterials (such as magnetic nanoparticles, gold nanoparticles, silicon nanopillars, nanowires, nanopillars, carbon nanotubes, dendrimers, quantum dots, and graphene oxide) and microfluidic chip technologies that incorporate nanoroughened surfaces and discuss their key challenges and perspectives in CTC downstream analyses, such as protein expression and genetic mutations that may reflect tumor aggressiveness and patient outcome.

Keywords: nanotechnology, circulating tumor cells, liquid biopsy, in vitro diagnostics.


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Huang, Q., Wang, Y., Chen, X., Wang, Y., Li, Z., Du, S., Wang, L., Chen, S. (2018). Nanotechnology-Based Strategies for Early Cancer Diagnosis Using Circulating Tumor Cells as a Liquid Biopsy. Nanotheranostics, 2(1), 21-41. https://doi.org/10.7150/ntno.22091.

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Huang, Q.; Wang, Y.; Chen, X.; Wang, Y.; Li, Z.; Du, S.; Wang, L.; Chen, S. Nanotechnology-Based Strategies for Early Cancer Diagnosis Using Circulating Tumor Cells as a Liquid Biopsy. Nanotheranostics 2018, 2 (1), 21-41. DOI: 10.7150/ntno.22091.

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Huang Q, Wang Y, Chen X, Wang Y, Li Z, Du S, Wang L, Chen S. Nanotechnology-Based Strategies for Early Cancer Diagnosis Using Circulating Tumor Cells as a Liquid Biopsy. Nanotheranostics 2018; 2(1):21-41. doi:10.7150/ntno.22091. https://www.ntno.org/v02p0021.htm

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Huang Q, Wang Y, Chen X, Wang Y, Li Z, Du S, Wang L, Chen S. 2018. Nanotechnology-Based Strategies for Early Cancer Diagnosis Using Circulating Tumor Cells as a Liquid Biopsy. Nanotheranostics. 2(1):21-41.

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