Liquid biopsy: a step closer to transform diagnosis, prognosis and future of cancer treatments

SN Lone, S Nisar, T Masoodi, M Singh, A Rizwan… - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Over the past decade, invasive techniques for diagnosing and monitoring cancers are slowly
being replaced by non-invasive methods such as liquid biopsy. Liquid biopsies have …

Circulating tumor nucleic acids: biology, release mechanisms, and clinical relevance

P Stejskal, H Goodarzi, J Srovnal, M Hajdúch… - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
Background Despite advances in early detection and therapies, cancer is still one of the
most common causes of death worldwide. Since each tumor is unique, there is a need to …

[HTML][HTML] ESMO recommendations on the use of circulating tumour DNA assays for patients with cancer: a report from the ESMO Precision Medicine Working Group

J Pascual, G Attard, FC Bidard, G Curigliano… - Annals of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) assays conducted on plasma are rapidly developing a
strong evidence base for use in patients with cancer. The European Society for Medical …

Epigenetics, fragmentomics, and topology of cell-free DNA in liquid biopsies

YMD Lo, DSC Han, P Jiang, RWK Chiu - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Liquid biopsies that are based on analysis of cell-free DNA from plasma
offer diagnostic information that is otherwise accessible conventionally through invasive …

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 …

Tumor microenvironment complexity and therapeutic implications at a glance

R Baghban, L Roshangar… - Cell Communication and …, 2020 - Springer
The dynamic interactions of cancer cells with their microenvironment consisting of stromal
cells (cellular part) and extracellular matrix (ECM) components (non-cellular) is essential to …

[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 …

Liquid biopsy epigenomic profiling for cancer subtyping

SC Baca, JH Seo, MP Davidsohn, B Fortunato… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Although circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) assays are increasingly used to inform clinical
decisions in cancer care, they have limited ability to identify the transcriptional programs that …

Deep whole-genome ctDNA chronology of treatment-resistant prostate cancer

C Herberts, M Annala, J Sipola, SWS Ng, XE Chen… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) in blood plasma is an emerging tool for clinical cancer
genotyping and longitudinal disease monitoring. However, owing to past emphasis on …

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 …