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SUBMITTER: Belloum Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7690267 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Belloum Yassine Y Janning Melanie M Mohme Malte M Simon Ronald R Kropidlowski Jolanthe J Sartori Alexander A Irwin Darryl D Westphal Manfred M Lamszus Katrin K Loges Sonja S Riethdorf Sabine S Pantel Klaus K Wikman Harriet H
Cells 20201022 11
Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) has shown great promise as a minimally invasive liquid biopsy for personalized cancer diagnostics especially among metastatic patients. Here, we used a novel sensitive assay to detect clinically relevant mutations in ctDNA in blood plasma from metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, including patients with a limited oligo-brain metastatic disease. We analyzed 66 plasma samples from 56 metastatic NSCLC patients for 74 hotspot mutations in five genes c ...[more]