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Lesion-Directed Therapies and Monitoring Tumor Evolution Using Liquid Biopsies.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine - 1 Feb 2017
Russo Mariangela, Bardelli Alberto
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Precision oncology relies on targeted drugs, such as kinase inhibitors, that are presently administered based on molecular profiles obtained from surgical or bioptic tissue samples. The inherent ability of human tumors to molecularly evolve in response to drug pressures represents a daunting diagnostic challenge. Circulating free DNA (cfDNA) released from primary and metastatic lesions can be used to draw...
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