Mass General Hospital, is a 1-inch by 3-inch
silicon wafer called the CTC-iChip, the first of its kind to filter out thousands of cancer
cells for genetic ... diversity of mutations
that exists within tumors or from one tumor to another.
The CTC-iChip, on the other hand, is less invasive than a biopsy, and more effective ... rest. What ultimately remains is a
purified solution of circulating tumor cells.
"The CTC-iChip test allows patients to be tested easily, with liquid biopsies, more
accurately and in genetic
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