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"Conflict of interest The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. This is also to declare that the technique has been filed for Indian Patent Application No.202211052698 A dt 15/09/2022 and published as an invention titled “A PROCESS FOR ISOLATING LIVE AND HETEROGENEOUS CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS FROM BLOOD USING MULTIPLE MARKERS” on 23/09/2022."

"The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This study is supported by the Intramural Grant of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) under grants number 71/2-EDU-16/1160 and IM/13/09-12-21-0160. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India, for providing fellowship support to AC (09/141(0209)/2019-EMR-I) during this study."