Liquid biopsies come of age: Towards implementation of circulating tumour DNA

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 223-238

  Wan, Jonathan C M ^a,b   Massie, Charles ^a,b   Garcia Corbacho, Javier ^c   Mouliere, Florent ^a,b   Brenton, James D ^a,b   Caldas, Carlos ^a,b,d   Pacey, Simon ^b,d   Baird, Richard ^b,d   Rosenfeld, Nitzan ^a,b  

^a CANCER RESEARCH UK CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPLAST DNA; DNA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; TUMOR MARKER;

BIOPSY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; CLONAL EVOLUTION; DNA DETERMINATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; LIQUID; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MONITORING; MUTATION; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; BLOOD; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; GENETICS; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE;

BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; BIOPSY; CLONAL EVOLUTION; DNA, NEOPLASM; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; MUTATION; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; PRECISION MEDICINE; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 85013854018     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc.2017.7     Document Type: Review

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