EPCAM and endometriosis: Therefore, we isolated CECs from EDTA anti-coagulated blood of patients with confirmed endometriosis and extra-uterine involvement using a bead-based approach, which was applied for the isolation of CTCs by targeting mHsp70 or EpCAM through employing cmHsp70.1 mAb- and EpCAM mAb-conjugated beads, respectively.