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Clinical Cancer Research 13, 920-928, February 1, 2007. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-06-1695
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Imaging, Diagnosis, Prognosis

Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells in Peripheral Blood of Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Validation Study of the CellSearch System

Sabine Riethdorf1, Herbert Fritsche4, Volkmar Müller3, Thomas Rau2, Christian Schindlbeck6, Brigitte Rack6, Wolfgang Janni6, Cornelia Coith1, Katrin Beck3, Fritz Jänicke3, Summer Jackson4, Terrie Gornet4, Massimo Cristofanilli5 and Klaus Pantel1

Authors' Affiliations: Institutes of 1 Tumor Biology and 2 Pharmacology and 3 Clinic of Gynecology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Departments of 4 Laboratory Medicine and 5 Breast Medical Oncology, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; and 6 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Innenstadt, Klinikum of the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Requests for reprints: Klaus Pantel, Institute of Tumor Biology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, D-20246 Hamburg, Germany. Phone: 49-40-42803-3503; Fax: 49-40-42803-5379; E-mail: pantel{at}uke.uni-hamburg.de.

Purpose: The CellSearch system (Veridex, Warren, NJ) is designed to enrich and enumerate circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from peripheral blood. Here, we validated the analytic performance of this system for clinical use in patients with metastatic breast cancer.

Experimental Design: This prospective multicenter study conducted at three independent laboratories involved samples from 92 patients with metastatic breast cancer. Intra- and inter-assay variability using controls containing defined numbers of cells (average, 50 and 1,000, respectively), cell stability based on varying storage and shipment conditions, recovery precision from samples spiked with 4 to 12 tumor cells, inter-instrument variability, and positivity of samples from metastatic breast cancer patients were tested.

Results: Intra- and inter-assay precision for two sites were high: All eight positive controls analyzed in the same run and >95% of the run to run control values (n = 299) were within the specified ranges. Recovery rate of spiked samples averaged between 80% and 82%. CTCs were detected in ~70% of metastatic breast cancer patients. CTC values of identical samples processed either immediately after blood drawing or after storage for 24, 48, or 72 h at room temperature or at 4°C did not differ significantly. Shipment of samples had no influence on CTC values. When analyzing identical samples in different centers, inter-instrument accordance was high.

Conclusions: The CellSearch system enables the reliable detection of CTCs in blood and is suitable for the routine assessment of metastatic breast cancer patients in the clinical laboratory. Blood samples should be shipped at room temperature and CTC counts are stable for at least 72 h.




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