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 …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Non-invasive early detection of cancer four years before conventional diagnosis using a blood test

X Chen, J Gole, A Gore, Q He, M Lu, J Min… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Early detection has the potential to reduce cancer mortality, but an effective screening test
must demonstrate asymptomatic cancer detection years before conventional diagnosis in a …

Integrating genomic features for non-invasive early lung cancer detection

JJ Chabon, EG Hamilton, DM Kurtz, MS Esfahani… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Radiologic screening of high-risk adults reduces lung-cancer-related mortality,; however, a
small minority of eligible individuals undergo such screening in the United States,. The …

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 …

Circulating tumor DNA and liquid biopsy in oncology

DW Cescon, SV Bratman, SM Chan, LL Siu - Nature Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Techniques for analyzing circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) to detect, characterize and monitor
cancer have matured rapidly. An increasing body of clinical evidence is demonstrating the …

A view on drug resistance in cancer

N Vasan, J Baselga, DM Hyman - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The problem of resistance to therapy in cancer is multifaceted. Here we take a reductionist
approach to define and separate the key determinants of drug resistance, which include …

Longitudinal undetectable molecular residual disease defines potentially cured population in localized non–small cell lung cancer

JT Zhang, SY Liu, W Gao, SYM Liu, HH Yan, L Ji… - Cancer Discovery, 2022 - AACR
The efficacy and potential limitations of molecular residual disease (MRD) detection urgently
need to be fully elucidated in a larger population of non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) …

[PDF][PDF] Noninvasive early identification of therapeutic benefit from immune checkpoint inhibition

BY Nabet, MS Esfahani, EJ Moding, EG Hamilton… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Although treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with immune checkpoint
inhibitors (ICIs) can produce remarkably durable responses, most patients develop early …