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Circulating tumor DNA: a promising biomarker in the liquid biopsy of cancer.
Oncotarget - 26 Jul 2016
Cheng Feifei, Su Li, Qian Cheng
Abstract excerpt
Tissue biopsy is the standard diagnostic procedure for cancers and also provides a material for genotyping, which can assist in the targeted therapies of cancers. However, tissue biopsy-based cancer diagnostic procedures have limitations in their assessment of cancer development, prognosis and genotyping, due to tumor heterogeneity and evolution. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is single- or double-stranded DNA...
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