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Early Reduction in ctDNA Predicts Survival in Patients with Lung and Bladder Cancer Treated with Durvalumab.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 15 Dec 2018
Raja Rajiv, Kuziora Michael, Brohawn Philip Z, Higgs Brandon W, Gupta Ashok, Dennis Phillip A, Ranade Koustubh
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PURPOSE: Immunotherapy has transformed the treatment of many solid tumors, with some patients deriving long-term benefit, but how to identify such patients remains unclear. Somatic mutations detected in circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) from plasma can be an indicator of disease progression, response to therapy, and clonality of primary and metastatic lesions. Hence, ctDNA analysis can provide a valuable noninvasive...
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