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Monitoring Daily Dynamics of Early Tumor Response to Targeted Therapy by Detecting Circulating Tumor DNA in Urine.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 15 Aug 2017
Husain Hatim, Melnikova Vladislava O, Kosco Karena, Woodward Brian, More Soham, Pingle Sandeep C, Weihe Elizabeth, Park Ben Ho, Tewari Muneesh, Erlander Mark G, Cohen Ezra, Lippman Scott M, Kurzrock Razelle
Abstract excerpt
Purpose: Noninvasive drug biomarkers for the early assessment of tumor response can enable adaptive therapeutic decision-making and proof-of-concept studies for investigational drugs. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is released into the circulation by tumor cell turnover and has been shown to be detectable in urine.Experimental Design: We tested the hypothesis that dynamic changes in EGFR activating (exon 19del and...
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