Evaluation of a marker independent isolation method for circulating tumor cells in esophageal adenocarcinoma

• Annouck Philippron ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: annouck.philippron@ugent.be

  Affiliations Department of Gastro-Intestinal Surgery, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Cancer Research Institute (CRIG), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1589-5217

  ⨯
• Lieven Depypere,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases and Thoracic Surgery (BREATHE), Department of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism (CHROMETA), KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8230-5649

  ⨯
• Steffi Oeyen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations Center for Oncological Research (CORE), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Translational Cancer Research Unit (TCRU), GZA Hospitals, Sint-Augustinus, Antwerp, Belgium

  ⨯
• Bram De Laere,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Cancer Research Institute (CRIG), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Human Structure and Repair, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

  ⨯
• Charlotte Vandeputte,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Cancer Research Institute (CRIG), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

  ⨯
• Philippe Nafteux,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  ⨯
• Katleen De Preter,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Cancer Research Institute (CRIG), Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Biomolecular Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

  ⨯
• Piet Pattyn

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gastro-Intestinal Surgery, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1139-3394

  ⨯