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Currently, most CTC detection techniques are restricted to the indistinguishable quantification of circulating rare cells, including both necrotic and viable cells in cancer patients. Clinically imperative demands to distinguish and detect live and\/or dead non-hematological aneuploid cancer cells in peripheral blood, which will assist in the rapid evaluation of therapeutic effects, real-time monitoring of treatment resistance longitudinally developed along with therapy and the effective detection of post-therapeutic MRD, have not yet been achieved. The integrated subtraction enrichment and immunostaining-fluorescence in situ hybridization (SE-iFISH)-derived novel strategy was developed in this study, aiming to precisely identify and detect live and necrotic cancer cells (NC) enriched from carcinoma patients\u2019 biofluids. The innovative SE-iFISH (NC) provides a meaningful and practical approach to co-detect various viable and necrotic aneuploid CTCs and CTECs. The detected circulating rare cells can be characterized and categorized into diverse subtypes based upon cell viability, morphology, multiple tumor markers\u2019 expression, and the degree of aneuploidy relevant to both malignancy and therapeutic resistance. 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