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. 2022 Jan 9;12(1):89. doi: 10.3390/life12010089

Table 3.

The presentation of the capture of CTCs by the straight and spiraled CellCollector.

Straight Wire—Ex Vivo Spiraled Wire—Ex Vivo
Captured CTCs as Median (Range) CTC Positive (%) Captured CTCs as
Median (Range)
CTC Positive (%)
Metastatic
pT1 9 (7–44) 100
pT2 5 (2–24) 100
pT3 5.5 (2–9) 100 5 (2–11) 100
n.a. 0 0
all 5.5 (2–9) 100 6 (0–44) 98.82
ccRCC 2.5 (2–3) 100 7 (0–24) 84.62
p/cRCC 8.5 (8–9) 100
cRCC 12 100
n.a. 3.5 (2–44) 100
Local
pT1 5.5 (0–11) 50 2 (0–5) 50
Control
0 (0–1) 33.33 0.5 (0–1) 50
Straight Wire—In Vivo
Captured CTCs (range) CTC positive (%)
Metastatic
pT1 2 a 100
pT2 7 (10–4) b 100
Local
pT2 2 a 100
pT3 5 (10–0) b 50

ccRCC—clear cell renal cell carcinoma, pRCC—papillary renal cell carcinoma, cRCC—chromophilic renal cell carcinoma, p/cRCC—papilary/chromofilic renal cell carcinoma, p.d. RCC—poorly differentiated renal cell carcinoma, n.a.—not available. a Single wire, b data obtained from one patient displayed as the median (therapy monitoring).