Limitations and opportunities of technologies for the analysis of cell-free DNA in cancer diagnostics

P Song, LR Wu, YH Yan, JX Zhang, T Chu… - Nature biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in the circulating blood plasma of patients with cancer contains
tumour-derived DNA sequences that can serve as biomarkers for guiding therapy, for the …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular residual disease and efficacy of adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with colorectal cancer

D Kotani, E Oki, Y Nakamura, H Yukami, S Mishima… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Despite standard-of-care treatment, more than 30% of patients with resectable colorectal
cancer (CRC) relapse. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) analysis may enable postsurgical risk …

ctDNA guiding adjuvant immunotherapy in urothelial carcinoma

T Powles, ZJ Assaf, N Davarpanah, R Banchereau… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Minimally invasive approaches to detect residual disease after surgery are needed to
identify patients with cancer who are at risk for metastatic relapse. Circulating tumour DNA …

Enhanced detection of minimal residual disease by targeted sequencing of phased variants in circulating tumor DNA

DM Kurtz, J Soo, L Co Ting Keh, S Alig… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Circulating tumor-derived DNA (ctDNA) is an emerging biomarker for many cancers, but the
limited sensitivity of current detection methods reduces its utility for diagnosing minimal …

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 …

The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons clinical practice guidelines for the management of colon cancer

JD Vogel, SI Felder, AR Bhama… - Diseases of the Colon …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
METHODS This guideline is based on the previous colon cancer parameter published in
2017. 10 Compared with 2017, this guideline has 11 new, 10 updated, and 2 excluded …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid biopsy at the frontier of detection, prognosis and progression monitoring in colorectal cancer

H Zhou, L Zhu, J Song, G Wang, P Li, W Li, P Luo… - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide and a leading
cause of carcinogenic death. To date, surgical resection is regarded as the gold standard by …

Personalized circulating tumor DNA analysis as a predictive biomarker in solid tumor patients treated with pembrolizumab

SV Bratman, SYC Yang, MAJ Iafolla, Z Liu, AR Hansen… - Nature Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) provides clinical benefit to a subset of patients with
cancer. However, existing biomarkers do not reliably predict treatment response across …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical relevance of blood-based ctDNA analysis: mutation detection and beyond

L Keller, Y Belloum, H Wikman, K Pantel - British journal of cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) derived from tumours is present in the plasma of cancer patients. The
majority of currently available studies on the use of this circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) deal …