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 …

Cancer evolution: Darwin and beyond

R Vendramin, K Litchfield, C Swanton - The EMBO journal, 2021 - embopress.org
Clinical and laboratory studies over recent decades have established branched evolution as
a feature of cancer. However, while grounded in somatic selection, several lines of evidence …

Circulating tumor DNA minimal residual disease detection of non–small-cell lung cancer treated with curative intent

B Pellini, AA Chaudhuri - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2022 - ascopubs.org
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) minimal residual disease (MRD) is a powerful biomarker
with the potential to improve survival outcomes for non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) …

[HTML][HTML] Bridging biological cfDNA features and machine learning approaches

T Moser, S Kühberger, I Lazzeri, G Vlachos, E Heitzer - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Liquid biopsies (LBs), particularly using circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), are expected to
revolutionize precision oncology and blood-based cancer screening. Recent technological …

[HTML][HTML] A clinician's handbook for using ctDNA throughout the patient journey

SO Hasenleithner, MR Speicher - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Background The promise of precision cancer medicine presently centers around the
genomic sequence of a patient's tumor being translated into timely, actionable information to …

Impact of circulating tumor DNA–based detection of molecular residual disease on the conduct and design of clinical trials for solid tumors

PM Kasi, G Fehringer, H Taniguchi, N Starling… - JCO Precision …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Earlier detection of cancer recurrence using circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) to
detect molecular residual disease (MRD) has the potential to dramatically affect cancer …

Liquid biopsy in gliomas: A RANO review and proposals for clinical applications

R Soffietti, C Bettegowda, IK Mellinghoff… - Neuro …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background There is an extensive literature highlighting the utility of blood-based liquid
biopsies in several extracranial tumors for diagnosis and monitoring. Methods The RANO …

[HTML][HTML] Urine tumor DNA detection of minimal residual disease in muscle-invasive bladder cancer treated with curative-intent radical cystectomy: A cohort study

PS Chauhan, K Chen, RK Babbra, W Feng… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background The standard of care treatment for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) is
radical cystectomy, which is typically preceded by neoadjuvant chemotherapy. However, the …

Prognostic significance of postsurgery circulating tumor DNA in nonmetastatic colorectal cancer: Individual patient pooled analysis of three cohort studies

J Tie, JD Cohen, SN Lo, Y Wang, L Li… - … journal of cancer, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Studies in multiple solid tumor types have demonstrated the prognostic significance of
ctDNA analysis after curative intent surgery. A combined analysis of data across completed …

[HTML][HTML] Residual ctDNA after treatment predicts early relapse in patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer

D Gale, K Heider, A Ruiz-Valdepenas, S Hackinger… - Annals of oncology, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Identification of residual disease in patients with localized non-small cell lung
cancer (NSCLC) following treatment with curative intent holds promise to identify patients at …