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Longitudinal monitoring of ctDNA EGFR mutation burden from urine correlates with patient response to EGFR TKIs: A case series.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Jun 2017
Tchekmedyian Nishan, Mudad Raja, Blanco Fernando F, Raymond Victoria M, Garst Jordan, Erlander Mark G, Haura Eric, Berz David
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Targetable, somatic EGFR mutations are highly prevalent in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), making them eligible for tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), isolated from blood or urine, has been demonstrated to reliably identify somatic tumor associated EGFR mutations, specifically in patients with inconclusive biopsy. When conventional imaging modalities are...
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