Current and future clinical applications of ctDNA in immuno-oncology

JC Stadler, Y Belloum, B Deitert, M Sementsov… - Cancer Research, 2022 - AACR
Testing peripheral blood for circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) offers a minimally invasive
opportunity to diagnose, characterize, and monitor the disease in individual cancer patients …

The current knowledge concerning solid cancer and therapy

M Najafi, J Majidpoor, H Toolee… - Journal of biochemical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Solid cancers comprise a large number of new cases and deaths from cancer each year
globally. There are a number of strategies for addressing tumors raised from solid organs …

Deep whole-genome ctDNA chronology of treatment-resistant prostate cancer

C Herberts, M Annala, J Sipola, SWS Ng, XE Chen… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) in blood plasma is an emerging tool for clinical cancer
genotyping and longitudinal disease monitoring. However, owing to past emphasis on …

Detection and relevance of epigenetic markers on ctDNA: recent advances and future outlook

E Lianidou - Molecular Oncology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid biopsy, a minimally invasive approach, is a highly powerful clinical tool for the real‐
time follow‐up of cancer and overcomes many limitations of tissue biopsies. Epigenetic …

Liquid biopsies and cancer omics

I Amelio, R Bertolo, P Bove, OC Buonomo… - Cell Death …, 2020 - nature.com
The development of the sequencing technologies allowed the generation of huge amounts
of molecular data from a single cancer specimen, allowing the clinical oncology to enter the …

Future perspectives of uveal melanoma blood based biomarkers

AB Beasley, FK Chen, TW Isaacs, ES Gray - British Journal of Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common primary intraocular malignancy affecting adults.
Despite successful local treatment of the primary tumour, metastatic disease develops in up …

Spatial patterns of tumour growth impact clonal diversification in a computational model and the TRACERx Renal study

X Fu, Y Zhao, JI Lopez, A Rowan, L Au… - Nature ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Genetic intra-tumour heterogeneity fuels clonal evolution, but our understanding of clinically
relevant clonal dynamics remain limited. We investigated spatial and temporal features of …

Metabolomic biomarkers in blood samples identify cancers in a mixed population of patients with nonspecific symptoms

JR Larkin, S Anthony, VA Johanssen, T Yeo… - Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - AACR
Purpose: Early diagnosis of cancer is critical for improving patient outcomes, but cancers
may be hard to diagnose if patients present with nonspecific signs and symptoms. We have …

Subclonal heterogeneity and evolution in breast cancer

I Mavrommati, F Johnson, GV Echeverria… - NPJ Breast Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Subclonal heterogeneity and evolution are characteristics of breast cancer that play a
fundamental role in tumour development, progression and resistance to current therapies. In …

Deciphering intratumoral heterogeneity using integrated clonal tracking and single-cell transcriptome analyses

H Contreras-Trujillo, J Eerdeng, S Akre, D Jiang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cellular heterogeneity is a major cause of treatment resistance in cancer. Despite recent
advances in single-cell genomic and transcriptomic sequencing, it remains difficult to relate …