The long and short of circulating cell-free DNA and the ins and outs of molecular diagnostics

P Jiang, YMD Lo - Trends in Genetics, 2016 - cell.com
The discovery of cell-free tumor and fetal DNA molecules in the plasma of cancer patients
and pregnant women, respectively, has opened up exciting opportunities in molecular …

Liquid biopsy as a tool for the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of breast cancer

AJA Freitas, RL Causin, MB Varuzza, S Calfa… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Breast cancer (BC) is a highly heterogeneous disease. The treatment of BC is complicated
owing to intratumoral complexity. Tissue biopsy and immunohistochemistry are the current …

Circulating tumor DNA as biomarkers for cancer detection

X Han, J Wang, Y Sun - Genomics, Proteomics and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Detection of circulating tumor DNAs (ctDNAs) in cancer patients is an important component
of cancer precision medicine ctDNAs. Compared to the traditional physical and biochemical …

Efficacy of cell-free DNA as a diagnostic biomarker in breast cancer patients

I Khurram, MU Khan, S Ibrahim, A Saleem, Z Khan… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Breast cancer is the most prevalent and leading cause of mortality worldwide among
women. Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) analysis is an alternative quantitative approach to …

Circulating tumor DNA is a variant of liquid biopsy with predictive and prognostic clinical value in breast cancer patients

TM Zavarykina, PK Lomskova, IV Pronina… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper introduces the reader to the field of liquid biopsies and cell-free nucleic acids,
focusing on circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in breast cancer (BC). BC is the most common …

Cell-free DNA fragmentomics: a promising biomarker for diagnosis, prognosis and prediction of response in breast Cancer

C Gianni, M Palleschi, F Merloni, G Di Menna… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Identifying novel circulating biomarkers predictive of response and informative about the
mechanisms of resistance, is the new challenge for breast cancer (BC) management. The …

Multiplex detection of rare mutations by picoliter droplet based digital PCR: sensitivity and specificity considerations

E Zonta, F Garlan, N Pécuchet, K Perez-Toralla… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
In cancer research, the accuracy of the technology used for biomarkers detection is
remarkably important. In this context, digital PCR represents a highly sensitive and …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid biopsy in pancreatic cancer: the beginning of a new era

DK Yadav, X Bai, RK Yadav, A Singh, G Li, T Ma… - Oncotarget, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
With dismal survival rate pancreatic cancer remains one of the most aggressive and
devastating malignancy. Predominantly, due to the absence of a dependable methodology …

Integrity and quantity of total cell-free DNA in the diagnosis of thyroid cancer: correlation with cytological classification

F Salvianti, C Giuliani, L Petrone, I Mancini… - International Journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) quantity and quality in plasma has been investigated as a non-
invasive biomarker in cancer. Previous studies have demonstrated increased cfDNA amount …

Characteristics, properties, and potential applications of circulating cell-free dna in clinical diagnostics: a focus on transplantation

K Sherwood, ET Weimer - Journal of immunological methods, 2018 - Elsevier
The initial discovery of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in 1948 by Mandel and Metais has led to
numerous investigations evaluating the role of cfDNA in various disease states. cfDNA has …