LUNGevity Foundation/The University of Kansas Cancer Center Research Grant
Sitta Sittampalam, PhD
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City
Chao Huang, MD
Dr. Sittampalam is determining whether circulating tumor cells can be a useful blood-based tumor marker in untreated patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer who are planning to receive chemotherapy. He is also exploring the feasibility of genomic profiling using circulating tumor cells.