Liquid biopsies to monitor and direct cancer treatment in colorectal cancer

G Mauri, PP Vitiello, A Sogari, G Crisafulli… - British Journal of …, 2022 - nature.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most prevalent and deadly cancers worldwide.
Despite recent improvements in treatment and prevention, most of the current therapeutic …

Updates on liquid biopsy: Current trends and future perspectives for clinical application in solid tumors

P Pinzani, V D'Argenio, M Del Re… - Clinical Chemistry and …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Despite advances in screening and therapeutics cancer continues to be one of the major
causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The molecular profile of tumor is routinely …

Plasma HER2 (ERBB2) Copy Number Predicts Response to HER2-targeted Therapy in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

G Siravegna, A Sartore-Bianchi, RJ Nagy… - Clinical cancer …, 2019 - AACR
Abstract Purpose: ERBB2 (HER2) amplification is an emerging biomarker in colon cancer,
conferring sensitivity to combination anti-HER2 therapy. Measurement of HER2 copy …

Patient-derived organoids from multiple colorectal cancer liver metastases reveal moderate intra-patient pharmacotranscriptomic heterogeneity

J Bruun, K Kryeziu, PW Eide, SH Moosavi… - Clinical Cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Purpose: Molecular tumor heterogeneity may have important implications for the efficacy of
targeted therapies in metastatic cancers. Inter-metastatic heterogeneity of sensitivity to …

Genome-wide copy-number alterations in circulating tumor DNA as a novel biomarker for patients with high-grade serous ovarian cancer

L Paracchini, L Beltrame, T Grassi, A Inglesi… - Clinical Cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Purpose: High-grade serous epithelial ovarian cancer (HGS-EOC) is defined by high levels
of somatic copy-number alterations (SCNA) with marked spatial and temporal tumor …

Monitoring of cancer patients via next‐generation sequencing of patient‐derived circulating tumor cells and tumor DNA

K Onidani, H Shoji, T Kakizaki, S Yoshimoto… - Cancer …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid biopsy of circulating tumor cells (CTC) and circulating tumor DNA (ct DNA) is gaining
attention as a method for real‐time monitoring in cancer patients. Conventional methods …

TERT Promoter Mutation Detection in Cell-Free Tumor-Derived DNA in Patients with IDH Wild-Type Glioblastomas: A Pilot Prospective Study

TA Juratli, S Stasik, A Zolal, C Schuster, S Richter… - Clinical Cancer …, 2018 - AACR
Purpose: We conducted a pilot study to assess the feasibility and the potential implications
of detecting TERT promoter (TERT p)–mutant cell-free tumor-derived DNA (tDNA) in the …

Mutational status of plasma exosomal KRAS predicts outcome in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer

D Lucchetti, IV Zurlo, F Colella, C Ricciardi-Tenore… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Liquid biopsy has become a useful alternative in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC)
patients when tissue biopsy of metastatic sites is not feasible. In this study we aimed to …

Uncovering the exosomes diversity: A window of opportunity for tumor progression monitoring

D Maisano, S Mimmi, R Russo, A Fioravanti, G Fiume… - Pharmaceuticals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cells can communicate through special “messages in the bottle”, which are recorded in the
bloodstream inside vesicles, namely exosomes. The exosomes are nanovesicles of 30–100 …

The current status of the clinical utility of liquid biopsies in cancer

A Snow, D Chen, JE Lang - Expert review of molecular diagnostics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Liquid biopsies have attracted considerable attention as potential diagnostic,
prognostic, predictive, and screening assays in oncology. The term liquid biopsies include …