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    Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is tumor-derived fragmented DNA in the bloodstream that is not associated with cells. ctDNA should not be confused with...
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  • nucleases. The term cfDNA can be used to describe various forms of DNA freely circulating in body fluids, including circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), cell-free mitochondrial...
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  • CAPP-Seq (category DNA)
    Digital Error Suppression (iDES). The use of ctDNA in this technique should not be confused with circulating tumor cells (CTCs); these are two different entities...
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  • biopsy of circulating tumor DNA for EGFR-mutated lung cancer is approved by the FDA. The CellSearch method for enumeration of circulating tumor cells in...
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  • Circulating mitochondrial DNA, also called cell-free circulating mitochondrial DNA and circulating cell-free mitochondrial DNA (ccf mtDNA), are short...
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    cell-free circulating tumor DNA (cfDNA) has an advantage over circulating tumor cells assays in that there is approximately 100 times more cell-free DNA than...
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  • in cancer patients. It primarily analyzes circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)—small fragments of DNA shed from tumor cells into the blood plasma. This method...
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    developed new methods to detect and monitor the low levels of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) fragments released into the bloodstream of people who have cancer...
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    discovered a technique which "involves detecting and monitoring tumor fragments circulating in the patient's bloodstream", as an alternative to traditional...
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  • minimal residual disease (MRD) using circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) analysis that does not require prior sequencing of a tumor tissue. Instead, these assays analyze...
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  • personalized profiling by deep sequencing (CAPP-Seq) for analysis of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA). The CLiP technique integrates multiple distinctive genomic...
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  • Derek (2017-08-16). "Direct detection of early-stage cancers using circulating tumor DNA". Science Translational Medicine. 9 (403). doi:10.1126/scitranslmed...
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  • increased risk for common hereditary cancers. Signatera is the first circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) assay built for molecular residual disease (MRD) detection and...
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  • incidence of tumor DNA in the blood, which can both provide early detection of tumor growth and indicate relapse in cancer. Circulating tumor DNA can be found...
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    Hui (2019). "Molecular profiling of tumors of the brainstem by sequencing of CSF-derived circulating tumor DNA". Acta Neuropathologica. 137 (2): 297–306...
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  • 2014, Cancer research identified Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) and Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) as metastasizing tumor biomarkers with special cellular...
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    Metastasis (redirect from Metastatic tumor)
    cancer cells, known as circulating tumor cells (CTCs), are able to penetrate the walls of lymphatic or blood vessels, and circulate through the bloodstream...
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  • hypermethylation of DNA. Carcinomas were determined to be caused by mutations in Wnt and p53 pathways. Both adenoma and carcinoma tumors of the adrenal cortex...
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  • Wallis, M; Bentley, D; Caldas, C; Rosenfeld, N (2013). "Analysis of circulating tumor DNA to monitor metastatic breast cancer". New England Journal of Medicine...
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  • the use of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) as a non-invasive biomarker. His laboratory has developed techniques for detecting and analyzing ctDNA, which can...
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    Cancer (redirect from Malignant tumors)
    identified by analyzing mutational signatures from genomic sequencing of tumor DNA. For example, this can reveal if lung cancer was caused by tobacco smoke...
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    as lung carcinoma, is a malignant tumor that begins in the lung. Lung cancer is caused by genetic damage to the DNA of cells in the airways, often caused...
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  • monitor tumor load, treatment response and disease progression in cancer patients by measuring rare mutations in circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in a variety...
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    profiling, using techniques like liquid biopsy (e.g., circulating tumor DNA or ctDNA), can capture tumor-derived genetic material shed into blood or other...
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  • i10-index of 355. His 10 most cited works include: Detection of circulating tumor DNA in early-and late-stage human malignancies, doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed...
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  • Recently, molecular analysis on tumour DNA has gained growing popularity. Detection of ctDNA (circulating tumor DNA) within CSF offers promising directions...
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    (start, stop or change) DNA tests are based on detecting circulating tumor DNA in the blood that contains cancer-specific DNA sequences. Modern techniques...
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  • plastid DNA, as well as many other varieties of extrachromosomal DNA, including plasmids and some viral DNA. Contrast linear DNA. circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)...
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    Tumor necrosis factor (TNF), formerly known as TNF-α, is a chemical messenger produced by the immune system that induces inflammation. TNF is produced...
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    Duplex sequencing (category DNA)
    mosaicism, subclonal variants in genetically heterogeneous cancers, or circulating tumor DNA. Several library preparation strategies have been developed that...
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