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Feasibility of monitoring advanced melanoma patients using cell-free DNA from plasma.
Pigment cell & melanoma research - 1 Jan 2018
Gangadhar Tara C, Savitch Samantha L, Yee Stephanie S, Xu Wei, Huang Alexander C, Harmon Shannon, Lieberman David B, Soucier Devon, Fan Ryan, Black Taylor A, Morrissette Jennifer J D, Salathia Neeraj, Waters Jill, Zhang Shile, Toung Jonathan, van Hummelen Paul, Fan Jian-Bing, Xu Xiaowei, Amaravadi Ravi K, Schuchter Lynn M, Karakousis Giorgos C, Hwang Wei-Ting, Carpenter Erica L
Abstract excerpt
To determine the feasibility of liquid biopsy for monitoring of patients with advanced melanoma, cell-free DNA was extracted from plasma for 25 Stage III/IV patients, most (84.0%) having received previous therapy. DNA concentrations ranged from 0.6 to 390.0 ng/ml (median = 7.8 ng/ml) and were positively correlated with tumor burden as measured by imaging (Spearman rho = 0.5435, p = .0363). Using ultra-deep...
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