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Circulating tumor cells: Biological features and survival mechanisms

XIAOFENG LI¹, JINYANG ZHENG², JINFENG ZHU³, XIN HUANG⁴, HUANHUAN ZHU⁵, BINGDI CHEN^6,*

1 Department of Oncology, Affiliated Quanzhou First Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, China
2 Department of Pathology, Affiliated Quanzhou First Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, China
3 Department of Medical Oncology, Affiliated Quanzhou First Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, China
4 Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
5 Department of Central Laboratory, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China
6 Shanghai East Hospital, The Institute for Biomedical Engineering & Nano Science, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

* Corresponding Author: Bingdi Chen,