Circulating tumour DNA—looking beyond the blood

A Tivey, M Church, D Rothwell, C Dive… - Nature reviews clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past decade, various liquid biopsy techniques have emerged as viable alternatives
to the analysis of traditional tissue biopsy samples. Such surrogate 'biopsies' offer numerous …

Glioblastoma in adults: a Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO) and European Society of Neuro-Oncology (EANO) consensus review on current management and future …

PY Wen, M Weller, EQ Lee, BM Alexander… - Neuro …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Glioblastomas are the most common form of malignant primary brain tumor and an important
cause of morbidity and mortality. In recent years there have been important advances in …

Prognostic and predictive biomarkers in gliomas

P Śledzińska, MG Bebyn, J Furtak… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Gliomas are the most common central nervous system tumors. New technologies, including
genetic research and advanced statistical methods, revolutionize the therapeutic approach …

Intratumor heterogeneity: the rosetta stone of therapy resistance

A Marusyk, M Janiszewska, K Polyak - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Advances in our understanding of molecular mechanisms of tumorigenesis have translated
into knowledge-based therapies directed against specific oncogenic signaling targets …

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 …

Evaluating the analytical validity of circulating tumor DNA sequencing assays for precision oncology

IW Deveson, B Gong, K Lai, JS LoCoco… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) sequencing is being rapidly adopted in precision oncology,
but the accuracy, sensitivity and reproducibility of ctDNA assays is poorly understood. Here …

Brain cancer stem cells: resilience through adaptive plasticity and hierarchical heterogeneity

RC Gimple, K Yang, ME Halbert, S Agnihotri… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Malignant brain tumours are complex ecosystems containing neoplastic and stromal
components that generate adaptive and evolutionarily driven aberrant tissues in the central …

Circulating tumor DNA in advanced solid tumors: clinical relevance and future directions

ML Cheng, E Pectasides, GJ Hanna… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The application of genomic profiling assays using plasma circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is
rapidly evolving in the management of patients with advanced solid tumors. Diverse plasma …

Longitudinal molecular trajectories of diffuse glioma in adults

FP Barthel, KC Johnson, FS Varn, AD Moskalik… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The evolutionary processes that drive universal therapeutic resistance in adult patients with
diffuse glioma remain unclear,. Here we analysed temporally separated DNA-sequencing …

Clinical cancer genomic profiling

D Chakravarty, DB Solit - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Technological innovation and rapid reduction in sequencing costs have enabled the
genomic profiling of hundreds of cancer-associated genes as a component of routine cancer …