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 …

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 …

Inferring gene expression from cell-free DNA fragmentation profiles

MS Esfahani, EG Hamilton, M Mehrmohamadi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Profiling of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in the bloodstream shows promise for
noninvasive cancer detection. Chromatin fragmentation features have previously been …

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 …

Epithelial ovarian cancer: evolution of management in the era of precision medicine

S Lheureux, M Braunstein… - CA: a cancer journal for …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ovarian cancer is the second most common cause of gynecologic cancer death in women
around the world. The outcomes are complicated, because the disease is often diagnosed …

Current and future perspectives of liquid biopsies in genomics-driven oncology

E Heitzer, IS Haque, CES Roberts… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Precision oncology seeks to leverage molecular information about cancer to improve patient
outcomes. Tissue biopsy samples are widely used to characterize tumours but are limited by …

Cell-free DNA methylome analysis for early preeclampsia prediction

M De Borre, H Che, Q Yu, L Lannoo, K De Ridder… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Preeclampsia (PE) is a leading cause for peripartal morbidity, especially if developing early
in gestation. To enable prophylaxis in the prevention of PE, pregnancies at risk of PE must …

Circulating cell-free DNA for cancer early detection

Q Gao, Q Zeng, Z Wang, C Li, Y Xu, P Cui, X Zhu, H Lu… - The Innovation, 2022 - cell.com
Effective screening modalities are currently available for only a small subset of cancers, and
they generally have suboptimal performance with complicated procedures. Therefore, there …

Feasibility of blood testing combined with PET-CT to screen for cancer and guide intervention

AM Lennon, AH Buchanan, I Kinde, A Warren… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The goal of earlier cancer detection is to identify the disease at a stage
when it can be effectively treated, thereby offering the patient a better chance of long-term …

Comprehensive human cell-type methylation atlas reveals origins of circulating cell-free DNA in health and disease

J Moss, J Magenheim, D Neiman, H Zemmour… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Methylation patterns of circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) contain rich information about
recent cell death events in the body. Here, we present an approach for unbiased …