Minetta Liu's Biography

Minetta Liu, Associate Professor and Chair, Oncology Research, Mayo Clinic

Minetta C. Liu, MD, is a medical oncologist and translational researcher in the Department of Oncology and the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic Rochester. Her clinical practice focuses on providing care to patients with breast cancer. Her laboratory interests focus on the development and implementation of blood based biomarkers for all solid tumors. She leads several studies with clinical and correlative endpoints focused on the efficient development of reliable predictors of treatment outcomes.

Significance and Characterization of Circulating Tumor Cells in Breast Cancer

Friday, 3 February 2012 at 09:30

Add to Calendar ▼2012-02-03 09:30:002012-02-03 10:30:00Europe/LondonSignificance and Characterization of Circulating Tumor Cells in Breast Cancer Circulating Tumor Cells in San Diego, USASan Diego, USASELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

The enumeration of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) is used to optimize treatment for patients with metastatic breast cancer. Prospective clinical trials demonstrate clinical utility when CTC enumeration is performed in conjunction with radiographic imaging and clinical evaluations. Refinements of existing technologies - or the development of improved technologies - are needed in order to increase the detection threshold of CTCs and to allow for further phenotypic and genotypic characterization of the collected cells. These advances may translate into use of CTC analysis in earlier stages of breast cancer for diagnosis and/or more effective clinical management.

Add to Calendar ▼2012-02-02 00:00:002012-02-03 00:00:00Europe/LondonCirculating Tumor CellsCirculating Tumor Cells in San Diego, USASan Diego, USASELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

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