Vol 4, No 5 (October 29, 2012): Journal of Thoracic Disease

Circulating Tumor Cells1

Circulating tumor cells as emerging tumor biomarkers in lung cancer
Renato Franco, Monica Cantile, Federica Zito Marino, Giuseppe Pirozzi
Moving forward with circulating tumor cells and lung cancer
T.Jeroen.N. Hiltermann, Anthonie J. van der Wekken, Harry J.M. Groen
Circulating DNA and NSCLC: old findings with new perspectives
Raquel Catarino, Ana Coelho, Rui Medeiros
Circulating tumor cells as emerging tumor biomarkers in lung cancer
Edward H. Cho
Detection methods of circulating tumor cells
Klaus Pantel, Catherine Alix-Panabières
Circulating tumor-derived biomarkers in lung cancer
Aline Taenzer, Catherine Alix-Panabières, Harriet Wikman, Klaus Pantel
Clinical utility of circulating tumor cells in non-small-cell lung carcinoma: are we there yet?
Milica Kontic, Miodrag Ognjanovic, Dragana Jovanovic, Simona Ognjanovic
Biology and clinical relevance of circulating tumour cells
Louise Carter, Robert Metcalf, Fiona H Blackhall, Caroline Dive, Matthew G Krebs
Circulating tumor cells in non-small cell lung carcinoma
Rogier Boshuizen, Peter Kuhn, Michel van den Heuvel

Brief Report

Fibrinous tumor of the pleura: an orphan disease lost in translation.
Paul Zarogoulidis, Vasiliki Draba, Nikolaos Machairiotis, Katerina Manika, Dimitrios Mikroulis, Kosmas Tsakiridis, Nikolaos Courcoutsakis, Ioannis Kioumis, Athanasios Zissimopoulos, Konstantinos Zarogoulidis

Case Report

A case of chronic expanding hematoma resulting in fatal hemoptysis
Yoshinobu Hata, Susumu Sakamoto, Nobuyuki Shiraga, Keita Sato, Fumitomo Sato, Hajime Otsuka, Hidenori Goto, Keigo Takagi, Yoshinori Watanabe
Thymic carcinoma developing in a multilocular thymic cyst
Manphool Singhal, Anupam Lal, Radhika Srinivasan, Rajan Duggal, Niranjan Khandelwal
Intralobar pulmonary sequestration in adults: three case reports
Casey Hertzenberg, Emmanuel Daon, Jeffrey Kramer

ICC COLUMN: The Voice of the Patient2

Health or wealth?
Lawrence Grouse

Disclosure:

1. The series “Circulating Tumor Cells” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding.

2. The series “ICC COLUMN: The Voice of the Patient” was commissioned by the Editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any sponsorship or funding. Lawrence Grouse served as the unpaid Guest Editor for the series.