Liquid biopsy: a step closer to transform diagnosis, prognosis and future of cancer treatments

SN Lone, S Nisar, T Masoodi, M Singh, A Rizwan… - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Over the past decade, invasive techniques for diagnosing and monitoring cancers are slowly
being replaced by non-invasive methods such as liquid biopsy. Liquid biopsies have …

Circulating biomarkers in the diagnosis and management of hepatocellular carcinoma

P Johnson, Q Zhou, DY Dao, YMD Lo - … reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most prevalent and lethal causes of cancer-
related death worldwide. The treatment of HCC remains challenging and is largely …

Epigenetics, fragmentomics, and topology of cell-free DNA in liquid biopsies

YMD Lo, DSC Han, P Jiang, RWK Chiu - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Liquid biopsies that are based on analysis of cell-free DNA from plasma
offer diagnostic information that is otherwise accessible conventionally through invasive …

ctDNA applications and integration in colorectal cancer: an NCI Colon and Rectal–Anal Task Forces whitepaper

A Dasari, VK Morris, CJ Allegra, C Atreya… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2020 - nature.com
An increasing number of studies are describing potential uses of circulating tumour DNA
(ctDNA) in the care of patients with colorectal cancer. Owing to this rapidly developing area …

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 …

Feasibility of blood testing combined with PET-CT to screen for cancer and guide intervention

AM Lennon, AH Buchanan, I Kinde, A Warren… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The goal of earlier cancer detection is to identify the disease at a stage
when it can be effectively treated, thereby offering the patient a better chance of long-term …

Potential clinical utility of liquid biopsies in ovarian cancer

JW Zhu, P Charkhchi, MR Akbari - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Background Ovarian cancer (OC) is the most lethal gynecologic malignancy worldwide. One
of the main challenges in the management of OC is the late clinical presentation of disease …

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 …

The origin of highly elevated cell-free DNA in healthy individuals and patients with pancreatic, colorectal, lung, or ovarian cancer

AK Mattox, C Douville, Y Wang, M Popoli, J Ptak… - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) concentrations from patients with cancer are often elevated
compared with those of healthy controls, but the sources of this extra cfDNA have never …

Life and death of circulating cell-free DNA

A Kustanovich, R Schwartz, T Peretz… - Cancer biology & …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Tumor-specific, circulating cell-free DNA in liquid biopsies is a promising source of
biomarkers for minimally invasive serial monitoring of treatment responses in cancer …