Peter KUHN,Anders CARLSSON,Anand KOLATKAR,Sanjiv Sam GAMBHIR,Viswam S. NAIR
申请号：
US14581968
公开号：
US20150185204A1
申请日:
2014.12.23
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2015
代理人:
摘要：
The present invention provides methods for diagnosing lung cancer in a subject comprising (a) generating circulating tumor cell (CTC) data from a blood sample obtained from the subject based on a direct analysis comprising immunofluorescent staining and morphological characteristics of nucleated cells in the sample, wherein CTCs are identified in context of surrounding nucleated cells based on a combination of the immunofluorescent staining and morphological characteristics (b) obtaining clinical data for the subject (c) combining the CTC data with the clinical data to diagnose lung cancer in the subject.
