Liquid biopsy enters the clinic—implementation issues and future challenges

M Ignatiadis, GW Sledge, SS Jeffrey - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2021 - nature.com
Historically, studies of disseminated tumour cells in bone marrow and circulating tumour
cells in peripheral blood have provided crucial insights into cancer biology and the …

The lingering mysteries of metastatic recurrence in breast cancer

AI Riggio, KE Varley, AL Welm - British journal of cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Despite being the hallmark of cancer that is responsible for the highest number of deaths,
very little is known about the biology of metastasis. Metastatic disease typically manifests …

Molecular residual disease and efficacy of adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with colorectal cancer

D Kotani, E Oki, Y Nakamura, H Yukami, S Mishima… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Despite standard-of-care treatment, more than 30% of patients with resectable colorectal
cancer (CRC) relapse. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) analysis may enable postsurgical risk …

ctDNA guiding adjuvant immunotherapy in urothelial carcinoma

T Powles, ZJ Assaf, N Davarpanah, R Banchereau… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Minimally invasive approaches to detect residual disease after surgery are needed to
identify patients with cancer who are at risk for metastatic relapse. Circulating tumour DNA …

Biomarkers for adjuvant endocrine and chemotherapy in early-stage breast cancer: ASCO guideline update

F Andre, N Ismaila, KH Allison, WE Barlow… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE To update recommendations on appropriate use of breast cancer biomarker
assay results to guide adjuvant endocrine and chemotherapy decisions in early-stage breast …

Personalized circulating tumor DNA analysis as a predictive biomarker in solid tumor patients treated with pembrolizumab

SV Bratman, SYC Yang, MAJ Iafolla, Z Liu, AR Hansen… - Nature Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) provides clinical benefit to a subset of patients with
cancer. However, existing biomarkers do not reliably predict treatment response across …

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 …

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] Clinical significance and biology of circulating tumor DNA in high-risk early-stage HER2-negative breast cancer receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy

MJM Magbanua, LB Swigart, Z Ahmed, RW Sayaman… - Cancer cell, 2023 - cell.com
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) analysis may improve early-stage breast cancer treatment
via non-invasive tumor burden assessment. To investigate subtype-specific differences in …

Personalized neoantigen vaccine NEO-PV-01 with chemotherapy and anti-PD-1 as first-line treatment for non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer

MM Awad, R Govindan, KN Balogh, DR Spigel… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Neoantigens arising from mutations in tumor DNA provide targets for immune-based
therapy. Here, we report the clinical and immune data from a Phase Ib clinical trial of a …