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Liquid biopsy in ovarian cancer: recent advances on circulating tumor cells and circulating tumor DNA.
Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine - 26 Jan 2018
Giannopoulou Lydia, Kasimir-Bauer Sabine, Lianidou Evi S
Abstract excerpt
Ovarian cancer remains the most lethal disease among gynecological malignancies despite the plethora of research studies during the last decades. The majority of patients are diagnosed in an advanced stage and exhibit resistance to standard chemotherapy. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) represent the main liquid biopsy approaches that offer a minimally invasive sample collection....
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