Liquid Biopsy
Through a simple blood sample, Liquid Biopsy may provide your medical team with:
Circulating Tumour Cells (CTCs)
Living cancer cells that reveal how your cancer may be behaving beyond the primary tumour.
Cancer Stem Cells (CSCs)
Treatment-resistant cells that may play a role in cancer recurrence.
Gene Expression Analysis
Insights into over 90 overexpressed genes associated with your cancer's biological activity.
Immune Profiling
An assessment of your immune environment and how well your immune system is functioning.
Drug Response Information
Biological data on how your specific cancer cells may respond to certain chemotherapy agents, targeted drugs, and natural substances.
What Is Liquid Biopsy?
Liquid Biopsy is a blood-based approach to gathering additional biological information about your cancer — working alongside your standard investigations to create a fuller, clearer picture of your cancer biology.
A simple blood sample that provides additional insights into your cancer biology.
Works alongside your existing hospital investigations to create a fuller biological picture.
Analyses living cancer cells in the bloodstream — a dynamic, real-time biological window.
More information for your medical team to support more informed care discussions.
Why Liquid Biopsy Matters
Cancer is not a single, static disease.
It evolves. It adapts.
And it behaves differently in every person.
Standard tissue biopsies and imaging remain essential — but they capture one location, at one point in time in the past. As cancer changes, questions arise that standard investigations alone may not fully answer:
Is my cancer changing over time?
Why do treatments work differently for different people?
Is there more my medical team could know?
Greater biological clarity may help build a more complete picture — and support more informed conversations with your medical team. This is exactly where Liquid Biopsy can make a difference.
How Liquid Biopsy
Supports More Strategic Medical Discussions
More biological information brings greater clarity. And greater clarity may support more informed discussions between you and your medical team. Once your medical team has access to CTC analysis, they may be better positioned to:
See Beyond
the Primary Tumour
Cancer does not stay in one place.
CTCs circulate through the bloodstream — and their analysis may reveal how your cancer is behaving systemically, beyond what a single tissue sample or scan can show.
Understand How Your Cancer Cells May Respond
In the laboratory, your living circulating tumour cells can be observed alongside various therapeutic compounds.
This may provide your medical team with additional biological context based on your actual cells — not population averages.
Build a Clearer,
More Complete Picture
When combined with your standard investigations, CTC analysis may contribute to a broader, more dynamic understanding of your cancer biology as a whole — supporting more personalised and informed discussions about your care.
Greater clarity. More context.
Greater confidence in the conversations that matter most.
Imaging,
Tissue Biopsy,
Hospital Treatment.
CTC Analysis,
Biological Insights,
Additional Information.
More Complete Biological Picture
Medical Team Discussion
Additional Information
Here Is How We Can Help You
Oritov is an educational and patient navigation service dedicated to bringing greater clarity to your cancer journey and supporting your medical team with additional biological information and educational resources.
Education First
Clarity Before Anything Else
Coordinated Testing Pathway
We Handle the Complexity
Ongoing Support
Beyond the Test
The Tests Behind the Clarity
Each panel is designed to provide different biological information that may support discussions with your medical team.
The Foundation
A foundational panel that provides additional biological information.
Tracking Change Over Time
Cancer evolves.
Understanding Drug Response
Depending on your clinical situation…
ChemoSNiP analyses genetic variations relevant to drug metabolism — providing additional information to support treatment planning discussions.
Your Immune Picture
Immune-Frame profiles your immune environment —
Getting Started Is
Simpler Than You Think
Talk to Us
Tell us about your situation. We will help you understand the available Liquid Biopsy panels and answer general questions about the process.
We Support Your Doctor Conversation
We provide educational resources about the testing pathway that you can share with your doctor — supporting a more informed discussion between you and your medical team.
We Handle the Coordination
Oritov coordinates the referral with a registered partner clinic in Singapore. You focus on your health — we handle the rest.
A Simple Blood Draw
A blood sample is collected at a registered clinic by a qualified medical professional. That is all that is needed from you.
Your Medical Team Receives the Report
Your laboratory report goes directly to your medical team. Oritov provides educational support to help you and your doctor understand the biological information — so your next care discussion with your medical team is better informed, with greater clarity.
Clinical decisions remain with your medical team. Oritov’s role is to educate, coordinate, and support you throughout the process.
The CANFREE™ Approach to Cancer
Every service Oritov provides is built on one framework — developed by Dr. Jervin Lim from over two decades of clinical observation in precision oncology and metabolic cancer care.
It is not a treatment protocol. It is an educational framework that provides additional biological information that may contribute to a broader understanding of cancer biology — helping you navigate the conversations that matter most with greater certainty, clarity, and confidence.
Liquid Biopsy
ClarityReal biological data to inform your medical team
Metabolic Nutrition
ResiliencyEvidence-informed nutritional strategies guided by your biological information
Clinical Expert Network
EmpowermentA growing network of practitioners trained in the CANFREE™ Approach to Cancer
CONTINUE EXPLORING
Continue Your Journey
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is Liquid Biopsy?
Liquid Biopsy is a blood-based approach to gathering additional biological information about your cancer. It analyses Circulating Tumour Cells (CTCs) — living cancer cells found in the bloodstream — to provide your medical team with insights that may complement your standard investigations.
Does Liquid Biopsy work alongside my existing hospital investigations and treatment?
Yes. Liquid Biopsy is designed to work alongside your standard care — adding an additional layer of biological information to support more informed discussions with your medical team. Your tissue biopsy, imaging, and hospital treatment remain the foundation of your cancer management.
Who should discuss Liquid Biopsy with their doctor?
Anyone who has received a cancer diagnosis and would like to explore additional biological information about their cancer may wish to discuss Liquid Biopsy with their doctor. Oritov can provide educational resources to support that conversation.
What are Circulating Tumour Cells (CTCs)?
CTCs are living cancer cells that detach from a tumour and circulate through the bloodstream. Their analysis may provide biological information about how your cancer is behaving systemically — beyond what a localised tissue sample alone can show.
Why has my doctor not mentioned Liquid Biopsy?
Liquid Biopsy is an evolving area of cancer research and is not yet part of standard oncology protocols in many healthcare systems, including Singapore. Your oncologist may be focused on established standard-of-care pathways. Oritov exists to help bridge this information gap — providing education so you can have an informed conversation with your medical team about whether additional biological information may be relevant to your situation.
Ready for Greater Clarity?
You have taken the first step by learning more.
The next step is a conversation.
Whether you want to understand your cancer biology better, explore the available liquid biopsy panels, or learn how Oritov supports more informed discussions with your medical team — we are here to help you move forward with greater clarity.
