非小细胞肺癌循环肿瘤细胞的定量检测意义

Objective To investigate the sensitivity, specificity and clinical significance of detecting circulating tomor cells (CTCs) in NSCLC. Methods Twenty-five patients who undetwent surgical resection for NSCLC form Jan 2007 to Apr 2007 were in- cluded in this study. Control group included 10 patients with benign pulmonary diseses (2 case of hamartoma and 8 case of pulmonary tu berculosis) and 10 healthy volunteers. The pulmonary veins blood and peripheral vein blood were collected respectively. The CD326 immunomagnetic beads and CK-fluorescein isothiocyanate (CK-FITC) were served as the marker antibodies of CTCs. Firstly mononu- clear cell marked by minibeads conjugated with CD326, the mononuclear cells were enriched and separated though Magnetic-activated cell separation(MACS), then the positive separtion cells were marked by anti-CK-FTTC and anti-leukocyte antibody CD45-phyco- erythrine (anti-CD45-PE), finally those cells detected and analyzed by flow cytometry . Results For stage Ⅰ and stage Ⅱ patients (n= 16), CTCs were detected from peripheral vein blood of in 5 (5/16, 31.25%) and from pulmonary veins blood in 9 (9/16, 56.25%). For stage Ⅲ and stage Ⅳ, CTCs were detected from peripheral vein blood in 5 (5/9, 55.56%) and from pulmonary veins blood in 9(7/9,77.78%).For stage Ⅰ,CTCs were detected from peripheral vein blood in 3(3/13,23%)and from pulmo- nery veins blood in 8(8/13,61.54%).The whole CTCs positive detection rate from pilmonary veins blood was 64%(16/25)which higher than feom peripheral vein blood(40%,10/25)(P<0.05).Conclusion The method was set up by MACS combined with FCM to detect the CTCs of pulmonary veins blood and peripheral vein blood of patients.with NSCLC,MACS combined with FCM may improve detection rate of CTCs.This technique appears to be an efficient to detect circulating tumor cells and may be important for dinical practice in the future.

Detection and quantitation of circulating tumor cells in patients with non-small cell lung cancer