Article
Clinical utility of circulating tumor DNA as a response and follow-up marker in cancer therapy.
Cancer metastasis reviews - 1 Sept 2020
Boonstra Pieter A, Wind Thijs T, van Kruchten Michel, Schuuring Ed, Hospers Geke A P, van der Wekken Anthonie J, de Groot Derk-Jan, Schröder Carolien P, Fehrmann Rudolf S N, Reyners Anna K L
Abstract excerpt
Response evaluation for cancer treatment consists primarily of clinical and radiological assessments. In addition, a limited number of serum biomarkers that assess treatment response are available for a small subset of malignancies. Through recent technological innovations, new methods for measuring tumor burden and treatment response are becoming available. By utilization of highly sensitive techniques,...
Topics
- Biomarkers, Tumor
- Circulating Tumor DNA
- Humans
- Liquid Biopsy
- Mutation
- Neoplasms
- Predictive Value of Tests
