Atlas of Liquid Biopsy Circulating Tumor Cells and Other Rare Cells in Cancer Patients’ Blood

Ludmilla Thomé Domingos Chinen is a pharmacist-biochemist. She graduated from the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil, in 1996, obtained her Master’s degree in Tropical Medicine at the same university in 2001, and completed her PhD in Microbiology and Immunology at the Federal University of São Paulo in 2005. She is currently a senior researcher at AC Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, Brazil.

Her research group was the first in Brazil and Latin America to work with circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and began their studies on this subject in 2012. Since then, they have acquired extensive experience with evaluating methods and performing cytopathological analysis of CTCs, as well as correlating them with clinical aspects. The image bank resulting from the study of cells from patients with various types of tumors will now serve as an essential guide for all professionals working with CTCs.