Primary cancer cells that are extracted from ovarian tumors can serve as an optimal substrate to study the biologic characteristics of ovarian cancer. We describe an efficient and effective method of enriching ovarian tumor cells from ascitic fluid using an immunomagnetic-based method.
Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California, San Francisco, UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, 94143-1702, USA. chanjohn@obgyn.ucsf.edu