The potential of liquid biopsy in the management of cancer patients

A Markou, E Tzanikou, E Lianidou - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, liquid biopsy has gained much attention as a powerful tool in
personalized medicine, since it enables monitoring cancer evolution and follow-up of cancer …

Current advances in chitosan nanoparticles based oral drug delivery for colorectal cancer treatment

H Choukaife, S Seyam, B Alallam… - International journal …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
As per the WHO, colorectal cancer (CRC) caused around 935,173 deaths worldwide in 2020
in both sexes and at all ages. The available anticancer therapies including chemotherapy …

Plasma ctDNA is a tumor tissue surrogate and enables clinical-genomic stratification of metastatic bladder cancer

G Vandekerkhove, JM Lavoie, M Annala… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Molecular stratification can improve the management of advanced cancers, but requires
relevant tumor samples. Metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC) is poised to benefit given a …

Novel use of circulating tumor DNA to identify muscle-invasive and non–organ-confined upper tract urothelial carcinoma

HL Huelster, B Gould, EA Schiftan, L Camperlengo… - European urology, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Optimal patient selection for neoadjuvant chemotherapy prior to surgical
extirpation is limited by the inaccuracy of contemporary clinical staging methods in high-risk …

Circulating and urinary tumour DNA in urothelial carcinoma—Upper tract, lower tract and metastatic disease

KM Rose, HL Huelster, JJ Meeks, BM Faltas… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Precision medicine has transformed the way urothelial carcinoma is managed. However,
current practices are limited by the availability of tissue samples for genomic profiling and …

Clinical utility of cell-free and circulating tumor DNA in kidney and bladder cancer: a critical review of current literature

EA Green, R Li, L Albiges, TK Choueiri… - European urology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Context Bladder and kidney cancers require invasive procedures for definitive diagnosis,
and bladder cancer requires repeated procedures to monitor for disease recurrence. Given …

Tumor heterogeneity and the potential role of liquid biopsy in bladder cancer

HM Huang, HX Li - Cancer Communications, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bladder cancer (BC) is a heterogeneous disease that characterized by genomic instability
and a high mutation rate. Heterogeneity in tumor may partially explain the diversity of …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid biopsy in urothelial carcinoma: Detection techniques and clinical applications

S Wu, R Li, Y Jiang, J Yu, J Zheng, Z Li, M Li… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The types of urothelial carcinoma (UC) include urothelial bladder cancer and upper tract
urothelial carcinoma. Current diagnostic techniques cannot meet the needs of patients …

Circulating tumor cell subtypes and T-cell populations as prognostic biomarkers to combination immunotherapy in patients with metastatic genitourinary cancer

HJ Chalfin, T Pramparo, A Mortazavi, SA Niglio… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Purpose: Circulating tumor cells (CTC) are under investigation as a minimally invasive liquid
biopsy that may improve risk stratification and treatment selection. CTCs uniquely allow for …

[HTML][HTML] Pembrolizumab and nab-paclitaxel as salvage therapy for platinum-treated, locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma: interim results of the open …

P Giannatempo, D Raggi, L Marandino, M Bandini… - Annals of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Pembrolizumab is a new standard of care for patients with platinum-treated,
metastatic urothelial carcinoma (UC). Nab-paclitaxel is active in advanced UC. In the …