Liquid biopsy: current technology and clinical applications

M Nikanjam, S Kato, R Kurzrock - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2022 - Springer
Liquid biopsies are increasingly used for cancer molecular profiling that enables a precision
oncology approach. Circulating extracellular nucleic acids (cell-free DNA; cfDNA) …

Circulating biomarkers in the diagnosis and management of hepatocellular carcinoma

P Johnson, Q Zhou, DY Dao, YMD Lo - … reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most prevalent and lethal causes of cancer-
related death worldwide. The treatment of HCC remains challenging and is largely …

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 …

[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 …

DNA methylation-based predictors of health: applications and statistical considerations

PD Yousefi, M Suderman, R Langdon… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
DNA methylation data have become a valuable source of information for biomarker
development, because, unlike static genetic risk estimates, DNA methylation varies …

[HTML][HTML] SERS tags for biomedical detection and bioimaging

H Liu, X Gao, C Xu, D Liu - Theranostics, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has emerged as a valuable technique for
molecular identification. Due to the characteristics of high sensitivity, excellent signal …

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 …

Tumour evolution in hepatocellular carcinoma

AJ Craig, J Von Felden, T Garcia-Lezana… - Nature reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common form of primary liver cancer, typically
develops on the background of chronic liver disease and is an aggressive disease with …

From NASH to HCC: current concepts and future challenges

QM Anstee, HL Reeves, E Kotsiliti, O Govaere… - Nature reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Caloric excess and sedentary lifestyle have led to a global epidemic of obesity and
metabolic syndrome. The hepatic consequence of metabolic syndrome and obesity …