Circulating tumour DNA—looking beyond the blood

A Tivey, M Church, D Rothwell, C Dive… - Nature reviews clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past decade, various liquid biopsy techniques have emerged as viable alternatives
to the analysis of traditional tissue biopsy samples. Such surrogate 'biopsies' offer numerous …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in bladder cancer biology and therapy

L Tran, JF Xiao, N Agarwal, JE Duex… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The field of research in bladder cancer has seen significant advances in recent years. Next-
generation sequencing has identified the genes most mutated in bladder cancer. This …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid pathogen detection by metagenomic next-generation sequencing of infected body fluids

W Gu, X Deng, M Lee, YD Sucu, S Arevalo, D Stryke… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
We developed a metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) test using cell-free DNA
from body fluids to identify pathogens. The performance of mNGS testing of 182 body fluids …

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) …

Cancer evolution: Darwin and beyond

R Vendramin, K Litchfield, C Swanton - The EMBO journal, 2021 - embopress.org
Clinical and laboratory studies over recent decades have established branched evolution as
a feature of cancer. However, while grounded in somatic selection, several lines of evidence …

[HTML][HTML] How liquid biopsies can change clinical practice in oncology

G Siravegna, B Mussolin, T Venesio, S Marsoni… - Annals of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Cell-free DNA fragments are shed into the bloodstream by tumor cells. The analysis of
circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), commonly known as liquid biopsy, can be exploited for a …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of renal cell carcinoma using plasma and urine cell-free DNA methylomes

PV Nuzzo, JE Berchuck, K Korthauer, S Spisak… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Improving early cancer detection has the potential to substantially reduce cancer-related
mortality. Cell-free methylated DNA immunoprecipitation and high-throughput sequencing …

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 …

Fragmentation patterns and personalized sequencing of cell‐free DNA in urine and plasma of glioma patients

F Mouliere, CG Smith, K Heider, J Su… - EMBO molecular …, 2021 - embopress.org
Glioma‐derived cell‐free DNA (cfDNA) is challenging to detect using liquid biopsy because
quantities in body fluids are low. We determined the glioma‐derived DNA fraction in …

A mathematical model of ctDNA shedding predicts tumor detection size

S Avanzini, DM Kurtz, JJ Chabon, EJ Moding… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Early cancer detection aims to find tumors before they progress to an incurable stage. To
determine the potential of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) for cancer detection, we developed …