Urine cell-free DNA multi-omics to detect MRD and predict survival in bladder cancer patients

PS Chauhan, A Shiang, I Alahi, RT Sundby… - NPJ Precision …, 2023 - nature.com
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) sensitivity remains subpar for molecular residual disease
(MRD) detection in bladder cancer patients. To remedy this problem, we focused on the …

Plasma ctDNA is a tumor tissue surrogate and enables clinical-genomic stratification of metastatic bladder cancer

G Vandekerkhove, JM Lavoie, M Annala… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Molecular stratification can improve the management of advanced cancers, but requires
relevant tumor samples. Metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC) is poised to benefit given a …

Urinary molecular pathology for patients with newly diagnosed urothelial bladder cancer

R Zhang, J Zang, F Xie, Y Zhang, Y Wang… - The Journal of …, 2021 - auajournals.org
Purpose: Next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based profiling of both urinary tumor DNA
(utDNA) and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) shows promise for noninvasive detection and …

[HTML][HTML] Whole-genome Mutational Analysis for Tumor-informed Detection of Circulating Tumor DNA in Patients with Urothelial Carcinoma

I Nordentoft, SV Lindskrog, K Birkenkamp-Demtröder… - European Urology, 2024 - Elsevier
Background and objective Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) can be used for sensitive
detection of minimal residual disease (MRD). However, the probability of detecting ctDNA in …

Early detection of metastatic relapse and monitoring of therapeutic efficacy by ultra-deep sequencing of plasma cell-free DNA in patients with urothelial bladder …

E Christensen, K Birkenkamp-Demtröder… - Journal of Clinical …, 2019 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE Novel sensitive methods for early detection of relapse and for monitoring
therapeutic efficacy may have a huge impact on risk stratification, treatment, and ultimately …

Cell-free DNA methylation as a predictive biomarker of response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer in SWOG S1314

YT Lu, M Plets, G Morrison, AT Cunha, SY Cen… - European urology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is the standard of care in muscle-invasive
bladder cancer (MIBC). However, treatment is intense, and the overall benefit is small …

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 …

Characterization of metastatic urothelial carcinoma via comprehensive genomic profiling of circulating tumor DNA

N Agarwal, SK Pal, AW Hahn, RH Nussenzveig… - Cancer, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Biomarker‐guided clinical trials are increasingly common in metastatic
urothelial carcinoma (mUC), yet patients for whom contemporary tumor tissue is not …

Circulating tumor DNA analyses predict disease recurrence in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

J Zhang, D Dai, J Tian, L Li, J Bai, Y Xu, Z Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) can be a prognostic biomarker for non-muscle-invasive
bladder cancer (NMIBC); however, targeted sequencing has not been performed to detect …

Urothelial carcinoma detection based on copy number profiles of urinary cell-free DNA by shallow whole-genome sequencing

G Ge, D Peng, B Guan, Y Zhou, Y Gong, Y Shi… - Clinical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND Current noninvasive assays for urothelial carcinoma (UC) lack clinical
sensitivity and specificity. Given the utility of plasma cell-free DNA (cfDNA) biomarkers, the …