Limitations and opportunities of technologies for the analysis of cell-free DNA in cancer diagnostics

P Song, LR Wu, YH Yan, JX Zhang, T Chu… - Nature biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in the circulating blood plasma of patients with cancer contains
tumour-derived DNA sequences that can serve as biomarkers for guiding therapy, for the …

Detecting liquid remnants of solid tumors: circulating tumor DNA minimal residual disease

EJ Moding, BY Nabet, AA Alizadeh, M Diehn - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Growing evidence demonstrates that circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) minimal residual
disease (MRD) following treatment for solid tumors predicts relapse. These results suggest …

Circulating tumor DNA analysis guiding adjuvant therapy in stage II colon cancer

J Tie, JD Cohen, K Lahouel, SN Lo… - … England Journal of …, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The role of adjuvant chemotherapy in stage II colon cancer continues to be
debated. The presence of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) after surgery predicts very poor …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid biopsy at the frontier of detection, prognosis and progression monitoring in colorectal cancer

H Zhou, L Zhu, J Song, G Wang, P Li, W Li, P Luo… - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide and a leading
cause of carcinogenic death. To date, surgical resection is regarded as the gold standard by …

Genomic profiling for clinical decision making in myeloid neoplasms and acute leukemia

EJ Duncavage, A Bagg, RP Hasserjian… - Blood, The Journal …, 2022 - ashpublications.org
Myeloid neoplasms and acute leukemias derive from the clonal expansion of hematopoietic
cells driven by somatic gene mutations. Although assessment of morphology plays a crucial …

A view on drug resistance in cancer

N Vasan, J Baselga, DM Hyman - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The problem of resistance to therapy in cancer is multifaceted. Here we take a reductionist
approach to define and separate the key determinants of drug resistance, which include …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical application and detection techniques of liquid biopsy in gastric cancer

S Ma, M Zhou, Y Xu, X Gu, M Zou, G Abudushalamu… - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most common tumors worldwide and the leading cause of
tumor-related mortality. Endoscopy and serological tumor marker testing are currently the …

[HTML][HTML] Circulating cell-free DNA for cancer early detection

Q Gao, Q Zeng, Z Wang, C Li, Y Xu, P Cui, X Zhu, H Lu… - The Innovation, 2022 - cell.com
Effective screening modalities are currently available for only a small subset of cancers, and
they generally have suboptimal performance with complicated procedures. Therefore, there …

Current and future perspectives of liquid biopsies in genomics-driven oncology

E Heitzer, IS Haque, CES Roberts… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Precision oncology seeks to leverage molecular information about cancer to improve patient
outcomes. Tissue biopsy samples are widely used to characterize tumours but are limited by …

Strategies for colorectal cancer screening

U Ladabaum, JA Dominitz, C Kahi, RE Schoen - Gastroenterology, 2020 - Elsevier
The incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) is increasing worldwide. CRC has high mortality
when detected at advanced stages, yet it is also highly preventable. Given the difficulties in …