Main Topics

  • Biology and clinical relevance of micrometastasis in cancer patients
  • Biology of metastasis
  • The role of cancer stem cells in metastasis
  • Mechanistic insights and clinical challenges of tumor metastasis
  • Metastasis tumor suppressor genes
  • Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition in breast cancer progression
  • The role of non coding RNAs in metastasis
  • Cancer dormancy and micrometastasis
  • The epigenome of human cancer metastasis
  • Novel Technologies for CTCs isolation
  • Novel Technologies for CTCs detection and enumeration
  • Novel Technologies for the molecular characterization of CTCs
  • Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) and Disseminated Tumor Cells (DTCs) as tumor biomarkers
  • CTCs in clinical trials
  • Potential Applications of Circulating Tumour Cells in Clinical Drug Development