The dawn of the liquid biopsy in the fight against cancer

Oncotarget

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 2912-2922

  Domínguez Vigil, Irma G ^a   Moreno Martínez, Ana K ^a,b   Wang, Julia Y ^c   Roehrl, Michael H A ^d   Barrera Saldaña, Hugo A ^a,e  

^a Medicina UANL   (Mexico)

^b Genetics Laboratory   (Mexico)

^c Curandis Laboratories   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

CfDNA; CtDNA; Diagnostics; Early detection; Liquid biopsy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CELL FREE DNA; CIRCULATING TUMOR DNA; DNA; MICRORNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; LIQUID BIOPSY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR BIOPSY;

EID: 85039993648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.23131     Document Type: Review

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