Table 3. Comparison of CTC enumeration by the CellSearch system and the MCA system.
Sample ID | CellSearch CTC (cells/7.5 mL) | MCA CTC (cells/7.5 mL) | |
NSCLC | 1 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | 9 | 0 | |
4 | 0 | 0 | |
5 | 0 | 5 | |
6 | 0 | 8 | |
7 | 2 | 90 | |
8 | 0 | 13 | |
9 | 0 | 13 | |
10 | 0 | 3 | |
11 | 1 | 35 | |
12 | 37 | 20 | |
13 | 2 | 246 | |
14 | 18 | 108 | |
15 | 0 | 73 | |
16 | 10 | 231 | |
17 | 19 | 20 | |
18 | 1 | 4 | |
19 | 0 | 0 | |
20 | 0 | 4 | |
21 | 0 | 291 | |
22 | 0 | 38 | |
SCLC | 23 | 200 | 20 |
24 | 189 | 30 | |
25 | 0 | 13 | |
26 | 0 | 9 | |
27 | 0 | 40 | |
28 | 0 | 7 | |
29 | 33 | 23 | |
30 | 2 | 14 | |
31 | 3 | 122 | |
32 | 18 | 2 | |
33 | 1 | 2329 | |
34 | 1 | 2021 | |
35 | 4 | 13 | |
36 | 15 | 5 | |
37 | 325 | 40 | |
38 | 2 | – | |
39 | 13 | 36 | |
40 | 110 | 110 | |
41 | 0 | 3 | |
42 | 0 | 23 | |
43 | 0 | 109 |