Article
[Liquid biopsy in colorectal cancer : An overview of ctDNA analysis in tumour diagnostics].
Der Pathologe - 1 Dec 2019
Haupts A, Roth W, Hartmann N
Abstract excerpt
In current routine diagnostics, the gold standard to determine the genomic profile of colorectal cancers (CRCs) is using biopsy or surgically resected tissues. However, such a tissue sample cannot represent the entire tumour heterogeneity, because it only shows a local and temporal snapshot. As a complement to tumour tissue genotyping, liquid biopsies enable minimally invasive detection of all potential...
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