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The detection and significance of EGFR and BRAF in cell-free DNA of peripheral blood in NSCLC.
Oncotarget - 25 Jul 2017
Yang Yang, Shen Xiaoyan, Li Rutian, Shen Jie, Zhang Hang, Yu Lixia, Liu Baorui, Wang Lifeng
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OBJECTIVE: Although driver mutation status is crucial to targeted therapy decision-making in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), due to unavailable or inadequate biopsies, there are still many patients with unknown mutation status. A promising way to solve this problem is liquid biopsy, such as cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in peripheral blood. Additionally, due to the little amount of cfDNA, detecting methods with high...
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