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In vivo and in vitro CTC expansion. In vitro and in vivo models are essential to identify and characterize metastasis-competent CTCs. The successful expansion of this more aggressive subset of CTCs after negative selection showed a clear EpCAM-positive phenotype in different studies from independent research groups [105,106,107,108,109,112,113].
