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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2015
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Cedars-sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Hsian-Rong Tseng, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Jiaoti Huang, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Edwin M. Posadas, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Jiefu Chen, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Hao Ho, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Zunfu Ke, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Ker-Chau Li, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Yi-Tsung Lu, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Jake Lichterman, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Min Song, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Leland W. K. Chung, Los Angeles, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, system and computer-readable medium for assessing a disease condition of a cancer of a subject, including: receiving a blood sample from the subject; isolating a plurality of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from the blood sample; measuring at least one of cell or cell nucleus sizes of each of the plurality of CTCs; determining a measured CTC size distribution of the plurality of CTCs based on the measuring; comparing the measured CTC size distribution to a reference CTC size distribution using a computer; and assigning the disease condition of the cancer of the subject based on the comparing.