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Liquid biopsies: genotyping circulating tumor DNA.
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology - 20 Feb 2014
Diaz Luis A, Bardelli Alberto
Abstract excerpt
Genotyping tumor tissue in search of somatic genetic alterations for actionable information has become routine practice in clinical oncology. Although these sequence alterations are highly informative, sampling tumor tissue has significant inherent limitations; tumor tissue is a single snapshot in time, is subject to selection bias resulting from tumor heterogeneity, and can be difficult to obtain. Cell-free...
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