Cell-free DNA and next-generation sequencing in the service of personalized medicine for lung cancer

Oncotarget

Volumn 7, Issue 43, 2016, Pages 71013-71035

  Bennett, Catherine W ^a   Berchem, Guy ^a,b   Kim, Yeoun Jin ^a   El Khoury, Victoria ^a  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Luxembourg)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Cell free DNA; Lung cancer; Next generation sequencing; Personalized medicine

Indexed keywords

CELL FREE DNA; DNA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; SCATTER FACTOR RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CELL FREE NUCLEIC ACID; EGFR PROTEIN, HUMAN; MET PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUMOR MARKER;

BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA DETERMINATION; EGFR GENE; EPIGENETICS; FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIQUID BIOPSY; LUNG CANCER; MET GENE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; ONCOLOGIST; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOMATIC MUTATION; BLOOD; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG TUMOR; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; CELL-FREE NUCLEIC ACIDS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, NEOPLASM; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; LIQUID BIOPSY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MUTATION; PRECISION MEDICINE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MET; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 84994344589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.11717     Document Type: Review

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