Circulating cell-free nucleic acids: main characteristics and clinical application

M Szilágyi, O Pös, É Márton, G Buglyó… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Liquid biopsy recently became a very promising diagnostic method that has several
advantages over conventional invasive methods. Liquid biopsy may serve as a source of …

Circulating tumor DNA as a liquid biopsy for cancer

E Heitzer, P Ulz, JB Geigl - Clinical chemistry, 2015 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND Targeted therapies have markedly changed the treatment of cancer over
the past 10 years. However, almost all tumors acquire resistance to systemic treatment as a …

The biology of circulating tumor cells

K Pantel, MR Speicher - Oncogene, 2016 - nature.com
Metastasis is a biologically complex process consisting of numerous stochastic events which
may tremendously differ across various cancer types. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are …

Circulating tumor DNA and liquid biopsy: opportunities, challenges, and recent advances in detection technologies

L Gorgannezhad, M Umer, MN Islam, NT Nguyen… - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) refers to short fragments of acellular nucleic acids detectable in
almost all body fluids, including blood, and is involved in various physiological and …

Inferring expressed genes by whole-genome sequencing of plasma DNA

P Ulz, GG Thallinger, M Auer, R Graf, K Kashofer… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The analysis of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in plasma represents a rapidly advancing field in
medicine. cfDNA consists predominantly of nucleosome-protected DNA shed into the …

Emerging concepts in liquid biopsies

S Perakis, MR Speicher - BMC medicine, 2017 - Springer
Characterizing and monitoring tumor genomes with blood samples could achieve significant
improvements in precision medicine. As tumors shed parts of themselves into the circulation …

Circulating tumor DNA as biomarkers for cancer detection

X Han, J Wang, Y Sun - Genomics, Proteomics and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Detection of circulating tumor DNAs (ctDNAs) in cancer patients is an important component
of cancer precision medicine ctDNAs. Compared to the traditional physical and biochemical …

Dissecting tumor growth: the role of cancer stem cells in drug resistance and recurrence

B Aramini, V Masciale, G Grisendi, F Bertolini, M Maur… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cancer is one of the most debated problems all over the world. Cancer
stem cells are considered responsible of tumor initiation, metastasis, drug resistance, and …

Normal and cancerous tissues release extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA) into the circulation

P Kumar, LW Dillon, Y Shibata, AA Jazaeri… - Molecular Cancer …, 2017 - AACR
Cell-free circulating linear DNA is being explored for noninvasive diagnosis and
management of tumors and fetuses, the so-called liquid biopsy. Previously, we observed the …

Potential utility of liquid biopsy as a diagnostic and prognostic tool for the assessment of solid tumors: implications in the precision oncology

RA Mathai, RVS Vidya, BS Reddy, L Thomas… - Journal of clinical …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Liquid biopsy is a technique that utilizes circulating biomarkers in the body fluids of cancer
patients to provide information regarding the genetic landscape of the cancer. It is emerging …