how do ou find cancer cells – Phosphorus Zone

Question: how do ou find cancer cells
- Keywords:
  cancer,
  cells
Asked by osborne to Barbara on 13 Jun 2011.
- Barbara Guinn answered on 13 Jun 2011:
  
  We are given cancer cells for our research, either when a tumour is removed or in blood or bone marrow from a leukaemia patient. We know most of the cells are cancerous but there are proteins we can use to show us exactly which cells are the cancerous ones. We can bind the proteins in cancer cells with antibodies which are bound to magnetic beads and then use magnets to purify the cancer cells.

Question: how do ou find cancer cells