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ReviewLab on a chip2019

Extracellular vesicles as cancer liquid biopsies: from discovery, validation, to clinical application.

Zhen Zhao, Jia Fan, Yen-Michael S Hsu, Christopher J Lyon, Bo Ning, Tony Y Hu

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Review in Lab on a chip, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers.

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59citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

59 citing papers in PubMed, 98 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. The RNA content of extracellular vesicles from gene-editedMolecular therapy. Methods & clinical development · 2025
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  15. Extracellular Vesicle Preparation and Analysis: A State-of-the-Art Review.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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  20. Extracellular vesicles in pancreatic cancer: a new era in precision medicine.Translational gastroenterology and hepatology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Zhen ZhaoPathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Jia Fan
Yen-Michael S Hsu
Christopher J Lyon
Bo Ning
Tony Y Hu
Center for Personalized Cancer Treatment · NLCornell University · USBioMimetic Systems (United States) · US

Funding

Noncoding RNA Biomarkers for Noninvasive and Early Detection of Pancreatic CancerU01CA214254 · NCI · BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE/CITY OF HOPE · PI Ajay Goel, DANIEL D VON HOFF · 2017 to 2026
$8.9M
Direct quantitation of the circulating Mtb-peptidome for pediatric TB managementR01HD090927 · NICHD · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI Christopher J Lyon, Charles DeBeaux Mitchell · 2017 to 2026
$4.5M
Quantification of Circulating Antigens for Pediatric TB Diagnosis andTreatment MonitoringR01AI122932 · NIAID · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI HU, TONY Y. · 2016 to 2019
$1.8M
Real-time Detection of Active TB in HIV Exposed Children on CustomizedNanotrapR01AI113725 · NIAID · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI LABAER, JOSHUA · 2015 to 2018
$1.6M
Multiplexed quantification of circulating peptidomic signatures for EBOLA early diagnosisR21AI126361 · NIAID · ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS · PI LABAER, JOSHUA · 2017 to 2018
$373k
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA214254NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI113725NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI122932NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI126361NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD090927
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Substantial research has been devoted to elucidate the roles that extracellular vesicles (EVs) play in the regulation of both normal and pathological processes, and multiple studies have demonstrated their potential as a source of cancer biomarkers. However, several factors have slowed the development of liquid biopsy EV biomarkers for cancer diagnosis, including logistical and technical difficulties associated with reproducibly obtaining highly purified EVs suitable for diagnostic analysis. Significant effort has focused on addressing these problems, and multiple groups have now reported EV analysis methods using liquid biopsies that have the potential for clinical translation. However, there are still important issues that must be addressed if these discoveries and technical advances are to be used for clinical translation of EV cancer biomarkers from liquid biopsies. To address these issues, this review focuses on the potential application of EV biomarkers for diagnosis of major cancer types, discussing approaches for EV biomarker discovery and verification, EV clinical assay development, analytical and clinical validation, clinical trials, regulatory submission, and end user utilization for the intended clinical application. This review also discusses key difficulties related to these steps, and recommendations for how to best accomplish steps in order to translate EV-based biomarkers into clinical settings.

Indexed as

Biomarkers, TumorExtracellular VesiclesHumansLiquid BiopsyNeoplasmsReproducibility of ResultsBiomarkers, Tumor

Identifiers

PMID30882822
PMCPMC6469512
OpenAlexW2919064031

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