Circulating tumor cells – A window into the near future

Cirkulirajuće tumorske stanice (CTC) najvjerojatnije imaju ključnu ulogu u posredovanju nastanka metastaza. CTC-i putuju kroz krvotok i limfni sustav. Hipoteze današnjih istraživanja jesu da CTC-i idu na udaljena mjesta u različite organe i tkiva. Moraju preživjeti u stranom mikrookolišu a zatim se razmnožavaju, čime se stvaraju mikroskopske, potom makroskopske, a potom i kliničke značajne neoplastične izrasline.Circulating tumor cells (CTC) most likely play a key role in mediating the formation metastasis. CTCs travel through the blood stream and lymphatic system. Today Hypotheses of many researches are that CTCs will go to distant places in different organs and tissues. They have to survive in a foreign microenvironment and then proliferate, thus creating a microscopic than macroscopic, and then clinically significant neoplastic growths