Discrimination between breast cancer cells and white blood cells by non-invasive measurements : Implications for a novel in vitro-based circulating tumor cell model using digital holographic cytometry
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer worldwide. Metastasis is the main reason for death in breast cancer, and today, there is a lack of methods to detect and isolate circulating tumor cells (CTCs), mainly due to their heterogeneity and rarity. There are some systems that are designed to detect rare epithelial cancer cells in whole blood based on the most common marker used today, the epi
