1Department of Pathology,Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, 2Cancer Dormancy and Tumor Microenvironment Institute,Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, 3Gruss-Lipper Biophotonics Center,Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, 4Department of Cell Biology,Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, 5Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center,Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, 6Integrated Imaging Program for Cancer Research,Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, 7Department of Surgery,Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, 8Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine,Fox Chase Cancer Center
We present a method for studying tumor cell redissemination from lung metastases involving a surgical protocol for the selective photoconversion of lung metastases, followed by the identification of redisseminated tumor cells in tertiary organs.
