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 …

Targeted therapies for lung cancer patients with oncogenic driver molecular alterations

AC Tan, DSW Tan - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2022 - ascopubs.org
Lung cancer has traditionally been classified by histology. However, a greater
understanding of disease biology and the identification of oncogenic driver alterations has …

Circulating tumor DNA to guide rechallenge with panitumumab in metastatic colorectal cancer: the phase 2 CHRONOS trial

A Sartore-Bianchi, F Pietrantonio, S Lonardi… - Nature Medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) monoclonal antibodies are approved for the
treatment of RAS wild-type (WT) metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), but the emergence of …

Circulating tumor nucleic acids: biology, release mechanisms, and clinical relevance

P Stejskal, H Goodarzi, J Srovnal, M Hajdúch… - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
Background Despite advances in early detection and therapies, cancer is still one of the
most common causes of death worldwide. Since each tumor is unique, there is a need to …

Amplification-free CRISPR/Cas detection technology: challenges, strategies, and perspectives

H Li, Y Xie, F Chen, H Bai, L Xiu, X Zhou… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Rapid and accurate molecular diagnosis is a prerequisite for precision medicine, food
safety, and environmental monitoring. The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic …

Liquid biopsy enters the clinic—implementation issues and future challenges

M Ignatiadis, GW Sledge, SS Jeffrey - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2021 - nature.com
Historically, studies of disseminated tumour cells in bone marrow and circulating tumour
cells in peripheral blood have provided crucial insights into cancer biology and the …

Liver metastases

DI Tsilimigras, P Brodt, PA Clavien… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2021 - nature.com
Liver metastases are commonly detected in a range of malignancies including colorectal
cancer (CRC), pancreatic cancer, melanoma, lung cancer and breast cancer, although CRC …

Developing the ATX (N) classification for use across the Alzheimer disease continuum

H Hampel, J Cummings, K Blennow, P Gao… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Breakthroughs in the development of highly accurate fluid and neuroimaging biomarkers
have catalysed the conceptual transformation of Alzheimer disease (AD) from the traditional …

The evolving translational potential of small extracellular vesicles in cancer

A Möller, RJ Lobb - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) are regarded as having promising potential to
be used as therapeutics and disease biomarkers. Mechanistically, EVs have been shown to …

Minimal residual disease detection using a plasma-only circulating tumor DNA assay in patients with colorectal cancer

AR Parikh, EE Van Seventer, G Siravegna… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Purpose: Detection of persistent circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) after curative-intent surgery
can identify patients with minimal residual disease (MRD) who will ultimately recur. Most …