This study aims to understand the metastasis in advanced NSCLC through comparing genomic and transcriptomic patterns between the circulating tumor cells and metastatic tumor cells by single cell sequencing analysis.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
20
no intervention
Samsung Medical Center
Seoul, South Korea
The gene expression and the cell population
Methods for the single cell RNA sequencing and whole exome sequencing of the tumor cells With the tissue biopsied specimens, scRNAseq (by 10X Genomics platform) and whole exome seq will be carried out.
Time frame: 3 year
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