Article
Circulating tumor DNA testing in advanced non-small cell lung cancer.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 May 2018
Moding Everett J, Diehn Maximilian, Wakelee Heather A
Abstract excerpt
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) shed from cancer cells into the peripheral blood can be non-invasively collected and tested for the presence of tumor-specific mutations. Mutations identified in ctDNA can predict responses to targeted therapies and emerging evidence suggests that changes in ctDNA levels over time can be used to monitor response to therapy and detect disease recurrence. Given the emergence of...
Topics
- Animals
- Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
- Biomarkers, Pharmacological
- Biomarkers, Tumor
- Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
- Circulating Tumor DNA
- ErbB Receptors
- Humans
- Lung Neoplasms
- Mutation
- Neoplasm Staging
