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Circulating Tumor DNA and Circulating Tumor Cells for Cancer Diagnosis and Management (Liquid Biopsy)
Liquid biopsy is a when a blood sample (rather than a piece of tissue) is used to test for cancer cells or small genetic cancer pieces mixing in the blood. The blood sample is taken from the arm and is tested for cells or genetic pieces that cancers shed into the bloodstream. Identifying tumor cell material in the blood might help to diagnose cancer, track changes in a cancer over time or help ...
متن کاملCirculating Tumor DNA and Circulating Tumor Cells for Cancer Diagnosis and Management (Liquid Biopsy)
Liquid biopsy is a when a blood sample (rather than a piece of tissue) is used to test for cancer cells or small genetic cancer pieces mixing in the blood. The blood sample is taken from the arm and is tested for cells or genetic pieces that cancers shed into the bloodstream. Identifying tumor cell material in the blood might help to diagnose cancer, track changes in a cancer over time or help ...
متن کاملCirculating tumor cells: liquid biopsy of cancer.
BACKGROUND The detection and molecular characterization of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are one of the most active areas of translational cancer research, with >400 clinical studies having included CTCs as a biomarker. The aims of research on CTCs include (a) estimation of the risk for metastatic relapse or metastatic progression (prognostic information), (b) stratification and real-time moni...
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Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are cancer cells that shed from a primary tumor and circulate in the bloodstream. As a form of "tumor liquid biopsy", CTCs provide important information for the mechanistic investigation of cancer metastasis and the measurement of tumor genotype evolution during treatment and disease progression. However, the extremely low abundance of CTCs in the peripheral blood...
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In the blood of cancer patients, some nucleic acid fragments and tumor cells can be found that make it possible to trace tumor changes through a simple blood test called “liquid biopsy”. The main components of liquid biopsy are fragments of DNA and RNA shed by tumors into the bloodstream and circulate freely( ctDNAs and ctRNAs). tumor cells which are shed into the blood (circulating tumor cells...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Deutsches Aerzteblatt Online
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1866-0452
DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2018.0169