Nucleosome patterns in circulating tumor DNA reveal transcriptional regulation of advanced prostate cancer phenotypes

N De Sarkar, RD Patton, AL Doebley, B Hanratty… - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
Advanced prostate cancers comprise distinct phenotypes, but tumor classification remains
clinically challenging. Here, we harnessed circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) to study tumor …

Technical and biological constraints on ctDNA-based genotyping

C Herberts, AW Wyatt - Trends in Cancer, 2021 - cell.com
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) enables real-time genomic profiling of cancer without the
need for tissue biopsy. ctDNA-based technology is seeing rapid uptake in clinical practice …

Clinical and genomic insights into circulating tumor DNA-based alterations across the spectrum of metastatic hormone-sensitive and castrate-resistant prostate cancer

M Kohli, W Tan, T Zheng, A Wang, C Montesinos… - …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Metastatic prostate cancer is a clonally heterogeneous disease state
characterized by progressive somatic perturbations. The aim of this study was to identify cell …

Low abundance of circulating tumor DNA in localized prostate cancer

ST Hennigan, SY Trostel, NT Terrigino… - JCO precision …, 2019 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Despite decreased screening-based detection of clinically insignificant tumors,
most diagnosed prostate cancers are still indolent, indicating a need for better strategies for …

Integrative genomic profiling of human prostate cancer

BS Taylor, N Schultz, H Hieronymus, A Gopalan… - Cancer cell, 2010 - cell.com
Annotation of prostate cancer genomes provides a foundation for discoveries that can
impact disease understanding and treatment. Concordant assessment of DNA copy number …

Refined characterization of circulating tumor DNA through biological feature integration

H Markus, D Chandrananda, E Moore, F Mouliere… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in blood plasma is present at very low concentrations
compared to cell-free DNA (cfDNA) of non-tumor origin. To enhance ctDNA detection, recent …

Epigenetic analysis of circulating tumor DNA in localized and metastatic prostate cancer: evaluation of clinical biomarker potential

MT Bjerre, M Nørgaard, OH Larsen, SØ Jensen… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Novel and minimally-invasive prostate cancer (PCa)-specific biomarkers are needed to
improve diagnosis and risk stratification. Here, we investigated the biomarker potential in …

Prediction of plasma ctDNA fraction and prognostic implications of liquid biopsy in advanced prostate cancer

NM Fonseca, C Maurice-Dror, C Herberts, W Tu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
No consensus strategies exist for prognosticating metastatic castration-resistant prostate
cancer (mCRPC). Circulating tumor DNA fraction (ctDNA%) is increasingly reported by …

Towards clinical implementation of circulating tumor DNA in metastatic prostate cancer: opportunities for integration and pitfalls to interpretation

EM Kwan, AW Wyatt, KN Chi - Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Plasma circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) represents short fragments of tumor-derived DNA
released into the bloodstream primarily from cancer cells undergoing apoptosis. In …

Genomic profiling of hormone-naive lymph node metastases in patients with prostate cancer

PL Paris, MD Hofer, G Albo, R Kuefer, JE Gschwend… - Neoplasia, 2006 - Elsevier
The progression of organ-confined prostate cancer to metastatic cancer is inevitably fatal.
Consequently, identification of structural changes in the genome and associated …