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Transient appearance of circulating tumor DNA associated with de novo treatment.
Scientific reports - 9 Dec 2016
Kato Kikuya, Uchida Junji, Kukita Yoji, Kumagai Toru, Nishino Kazumi, Inoue Takako, Kimura Madoka, Imamura Fumio
Abstract excerpt
The limitation of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is its inability to detect cancer cell subpopulations with few or no dying cells. Lung cancer patients subjected to the EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI) treatment were prospectively collected, and ctDNA levels represented by the activating and T790M mutations were measured. The first data set (21 patients) consisting of samples collected in the period from...
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