Lab-on-Chip System For Cheap, Easy And Fast Detection Of Tumor Cells In The Blood

Detection of circulating and disseminated tumor cells in blood is an advanced technique to diagnose cancer metastasis or to follow up cancer patients throughout treatment. Currently, the detection analyses of cancer cells are performed in medical laboratories requiring labor intensive, expensive and time-consuming sample processing and cell isolation steps. A full tumor cell detection analysis can take more than a day. A lab-on-chip, integrating the various processing steps, would enable a faster, easy-to-use, cost-effective detection of tumor cells in blood. Therefore, they are labor-saving and minimally invasive, helping increase the patient's comfort and the effectiveness of today's healthcare.