Detecting liquid remnants of solid tumors: circulating tumor DNA minimal residual disease

EJ Moding, BY Nabet, AA Alizadeh, M Diehn - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Growing evidence demonstrates that circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) minimal residual
disease (MRD) following treatment for solid tumors predicts relapse. These results suggest …

Life and death of circulating cell-free DNA

A Kustanovich, R Schwartz, T Peretz… - Cancer biology & …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Tumor-specific, circulating cell-free DNA in liquid biopsies is a promising source of
biomarkers for minimally invasive serial monitoring of treatment responses in cancer …

Bridging biological cfDNA features and machine learning approaches

T Moser, S Kühberger, I Lazzeri, G Vlachos, E Heitzer - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
Liquid biopsies (LBs), particularly using circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), are expected to
revolutionize precision oncology and blood-based cancer screening. Recent technological …

[HTML][HTML] The translational challenges of precision oncology

O Pich, C Bailey, TBK Watkins, S Zaccaria… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The translational challenges in the field of precision oncology are in part related to the
biological complexity and diversity of this disease. Technological advances in genomics …

Current and future clinical applications of ctDNA in immuno-oncology

JC Stadler, Y Belloum, B Deitert, M Sementsov… - Cancer Research, 2022 - AACR
Testing peripheral blood for circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) offers a minimally invasive
opportunity to diagnose, characterize, and monitor the disease in individual cancer patients …

Predictive biomarkers for response to immune checkpoint inhibition

B Shum, J Larkin, S Turajlic - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Immune checkpoint inhibitors have transformed the prognosis and treatment paradigm of
many cancer types, through the potential for durable responses. However, the majority of …

Future perspectives of uveal melanoma blood based biomarkers

AB Beasley, FK Chen, TW Isaacs, ES Gray - British Journal of Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common primary intraocular malignancy affecting adults.
Despite successful local treatment of the primary tumour, metastatic disease develops in up …

Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) detection is associated with shorter progression-free survival in advanced melanoma patients

GT Marczynski, AC Laus, MB Dos Reis, RM Reis… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract BRAF, NRAS and TERT mutations occur in more than 2/3 of melanomas. Its
detection in patient's blood, as circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), represents a possibility for …

Longitudinal monitoring of ctDNA in patients with melanoma and brain metastases treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors

JH Lee, AM Menzies, MS Carlino, AC McEvoy… - Clinical Cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Purpose: Brain involvement occurs in the majority of patients with metastatic melanoma. The
potential of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) for surveillance and monitoring systemic therapy …