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SUBMITTER: Conteduca V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5834043 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Conteduca V V Wetterskog D D Sharabiani M T A MTA Grande E E Fernandez-Perez M P MP Jayaram A A Salvi S S Castellano D D Romanel A A Romanel A A Lolli C C Casadio V V Gurioli G G Amadori D D Font A A Vazquez-Estevez S S González Del Alba A A Mellado B B Fernandez-Calvo O O Méndez-Vidal M J MJ Climent M A MA Duran I I Gallardo E E Rodriguez A A Santander C C Sáez M I MI Puente J J Gasi Tandefelt D D Wingate A A Dearnaley D D Demichelis F F De Giorgi U U Gonzalez-Billalabeitia E E Attard G G
Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology 20170701 7
<h4>Background</h4>There is an urgent need to identify biomarkers to guide personalized therapy in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). We aimed to clinically qualify androgen receptor (AR) gene status measurement in plasma DNA using multiplex droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) in pre- and post-chemotherapy CRPC.<h4>Methods</h4>We optimized ddPCR assays for AR copy number and mutations and retrospectively analyzed plasma DNA from patients recruited to one of the three biomarker protocols with p ...[more]