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Circulating tumor DNA profiling for childhood brain tumors: Technical challenges and evidence for utility.
Laboratory investigation; a journal of technical methods and pathology - 1 Feb 2022
Liu Anthony Pak-Yin, Northcott Paul A, Robinson Giles W, Gajjar Amar
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Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) profiling as liquid biopsy has proven value in adult-onset malignancies, serving as a patient-specific surrogate for residual disease and providing a non-invasive tool for serial interrogation of tumor genomics. However, its application in neoplasms of the central nervous system (CNS) has not been as extensively studied. Unique considerations and methodological challenges exist, which need...
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