Application of cell-free DNA analysis to cancer treatment

RB Corcoran, BA Chabner - New England Journal of Medicine, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Emerging Roles of Cell-free Tumor DNA in Oncology The capacity to detect new cancers,
treatment-resistant variants, and tumor heterogeneity by noninvasive technology on the …

Circulating tumor DNA analysis in patients with cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology and College of American Pathologists joint review

JD Merker, GR Oxnard, C Compton… - … of pathology & …, 2018 - meridian.allenpress.com
Purpose.—Clinical use of analytical tests to assess genomic variants in circulating tumor
DNA (ctDNA) is increasing. This joint review from the American Society of Clinical Oncology …

Detection and localization of surgically resectable cancers with a multi-analyte blood test

JD Cohen, L Li, Y Wang, C Thoburn, B Afsari… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Earlier detection is key to reducing cancer deaths. Here, we describe a blood test that can
detect eight common cancer types through assessment of the levels of circulating proteins …

Principles of DNA methylation and their implications for biology and medicine

Y Dor, H Cedar - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
DNA methylation represents an annotation system for marking the genetic text, thus
providing instruction as to how and when to read the information and control transcription …

Liquid biopsy of cancer: a multimodal diagnostic tool in clinical oncology

R Palmirotta, D Lovero, P Cafforio… - … in medical oncology, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Over the last decades, the concept of precision medicine has dramatically renewed the field
of medical oncology; the introduction of patient-tailored therapies has significantly improved …

Early stage NSCLC—challenges to implementing ctDNA-based screening and MRD detection

C Abbosh, NJ Birkbak, C Swanton - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2018 - nature.com
Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) refers to the fraction of cell-free DNA in a patient's blood
that originates from a tumour. Advances in DNA sequencing technologies and our …

Early assessment of lung cancer immunotherapy response via circulating tumor DNA

SB Goldberg, A Narayan, AJ Kole, RH Decker… - Clinical Cancer …, 2018 - AACR
Purpose: Decisions to continue or suspend therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors are
commonly guided by tumor dynamics seen on serial imaging. However, immunotherapy …

Early circulating tumor DNA dynamics and clonal selection with palbociclib and fulvestrant for breast cancer

B O'Leary, S Hrebien, JP Morden, M Beaney… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
CDK4/6 inhibition substantially improves progression-free survival (PFS) for women with
advanced estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer, although there are no predictive …

Enhanced detection of circulating tumor DNA by fragment size analysis

F Mouliere, D Chandrananda, AM Piskorz… - Science translational …, 2018 - science.org
Existing methods to improve detection of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) have focused on
genomic alterations but have rarely considered the biological properties of plasma cell-free …

Circulating tumor DNA and liquid biopsy: opportunities, challenges, and recent advances in detection technologies

L Gorgannezhad, M Umer, MN Islam, NT Nguyen… - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) refers to short fragments of acellular nucleic acids detectable in
almost all body fluids, including blood, and is involved in various physiological and …