Basically the success of treatment in black skin cancer can be monitored through the number of circulating tumor cells in the blood.
Both in adjuvant as well as in neoadjuvant therapy, maintrac® can help to monitor breast cancer therapy and make an optimization if required.
With maintrac® the effectiveness of chemotherapeutic agents can already be tested prior to the colon cancer treatment.
maintrac® is able to support the control of therapy success and helps choosing promising therapy strategies regarding the stage of disease and treatment.
With the possibility of testing various substances with maintrac®, the patient already gets to know the substance most likely to be effective against the CETCs even before starting chemotherapy.
In particular in the situation of watch-and-wait in prostate cancer, maintrac® can be applied for active surveillance.
After cancer therapy is successfully accomplished, the calculated course of cell counts of maintrac® can be an indication wheter stomach cancer stays in remission or is about to return.
maintrac® can also be applied for further tumor types, such as sarcoma, to monitor the therapy and/or characterize the therapy-relevant properties.
Through the accompanying determination of cell counts with maintrac®, it is possible to optimize and personalize the treatment during the whole course of disease.
With maintrac® it is possible to identify the drug which is likely to be most effective prior to the therapy.
Certain substances (targeted tumor therapies) only prove useful if tumor cells exhibit the relevant properties.
An increase of circulating tumor cells (CETC / CTC) in the blood can be determined with maintrac® and may indicate new tumor activity.
In neoadjuvant therapy, maintrac® can assess the effectiveness of treatment and draw attention to relapses at an early stage.
In addition to the monitoring of therapy success, maintrac® is able to identify medications which are most probable to be effective on the circulating tumor cells in the blood.
In the metastatic situation, the maintrac® cell courses should be interpreted individually due to various possibilities of interpretation.
During hormone and maintenance therapy, maintrac® can also support the monitoring of cancer diseases as well as the decision making concering further therapies.
During the „watch and wait“ approach, maintrac® can keep a close check on tumor activity.
On this page, you can find out about how to receive the lab request form for maintrac®; you will also be provided with information on how the blood samples should be send.
You can download our current information documents here. There you will learn about the applications of maintrac®.
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In this brochure, you will find information on the areas of application of maintrac®. You will also learn about the advantages that maintrac® diagnostics offers patients..
In this flyer you will learn details about maintrac® Cell Counting. You will learn when maintrac® Cell Counting can be used and how the cell count trajectory can be interpreted.
maintrac® Therapeutic Substance Testing indicates the efficacy of cytotoxic substances on living circulating tumor cells even before the start of therapy. It is also shown in which situations it can be performed.
Testing of maintrac® Therapy Relevant Tumor Cell Characteristics can provide additional information about the response to potential targeted therapy. Among other things, you will find a list of all biomarkers that we test.
stemtrac® Tumorspheres identifies the circulating cancer stem cells. The tumor spheres can grow from these in vitro. The number of tumor spheres provides an indication of the aggressiveness of the tumor and the risk of metastasis.