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Magnetic-activated cell sorting integrated with microfluidics has emerged as a powerful tool for CTC isolation and phenotyping. However, this method is still plagued by inherent trade-offs among sample throughput, magnetic separation resolution, and recovery of CTC subpopulations for downstream analysis. To address these limitations, we report a DLD@MACS chip engineered to generate a magnetic field gradient within a deterministic lateral displacement (DLD) channel, which facilitates the simultaneous size-based enrichment of CTCs and magnetic separation of their epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) expression-related phenotypes into distinct streams, including the separation and recovery of EpCAM-negative CTCs. The DLD@MACS chip enabled significantly higher sample throughput (200 \u03bcL\/min) compared to reported MACS-based phenotyping methods. Furthermore, a synergistic effect between DLD and the magnetic field gradient yields an enhanced separation resolution even at low magnetization. Through single-cell inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (SC-ICP-MS) detection, this method was successfully applied to enumeration and phenotyping of CTCs in the blood samples from more than 30 breast cancer patients. 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