Early detection and monitoring of cancer in liquid biopsy: advances and challenges

Expert Rev Mol Diagn. 2019 Apr;19(4):273-276. doi: 10.1080/14737159.2019.1583104. Epub 2019 Feb 21.

Authors

Vivian Weiwen Xue¹, Cesar Sze Chuen Wong¹, William Chi Shing Cho²

Affiliations

¹ a Department of Health Technology and Informatics, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences , Hong Kong Polytechnic University , Kowloon , Hong Kong.
² b Department of Clinical Oncology , Queen Elizabeth Hospital , Kowloon , Hong Kong.

PMID: 30760042
DOI: 10.1080/14737159.2019.1583104

No abstract available

Keywords: Cancer monitoring; circulating tumor DNA; early detection; liquid biopsy; next-generation sequencing.

MeSH terms

Biomarkers, Tumor / blood*
Circulating Tumor DNA / blood*
Early Detection of Cancer
High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / trends
Humans
Liquid Biopsy*
Neoplasms / blood*

Substances

Biomarkers, Tumor
Circulating Tumor DNA