Malignant pleural effusion supernatant is an alternative liquid biopsy specimen for comprehensive mutational profiling

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BACKGROUND: The clinical utility of malignant pleural effusion (MPE) to detect mutation has been well documented; however, routine practice of the use of MPE involves collection of the cell pellet to detect mutation, and limited studies have interrogated the MPE supernatant as an alternative source of tumor-derived DNA for mutation profiling. In this study, we investigated the potential of MPE supernatant as a...

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