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ReviewCurrent hematologic malignancy reports2019

Liquid Biopsy by Next-Generation Sequencing: a Multimodality Test for Management of Cancer.

Hanadi El Achi, Joseph D Khoury, Sanam Loghavi

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Review in Current hematologic malignancy reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Cholangiocarcinoma: The era of liquid biopsy.World journal of gastroenterology · 2025
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  10. Contemporary Management of Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer.Current treatment options in oncology · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Hanadi El AchiDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Joseph D KhouryDepartment of Hematopathology, Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Sanam LoghaviDepartment of Hematopathology, Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA. SLoghavi@mdanderson.org.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewWhile liquid biopsy is still relatively a new concept, the advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies has recently generated a revolution in the field and will be the focus of this review. RECENT

findingsCirculating tumor DNA (ctDNA) derives from tumor cells and provides information about the genetic alterations of tumors. However, ctDNA concentration in plasma can be below the level of detection by conventional methods; therefore, screening for actionable genetic information is challenging. Clinical trials exploring targeted and untargeted sequencing to improve the outcomes of ctDNA detection are showing promising results, having reached a limit of detection as low as 0.001% of ctDNA in a background of normal circulating DNA. Most of the challenges related to the sensitivity of detection of ctDNA have been defeated by dint of NGS-based approaches. Despite all the efforts, these methods are still expensive, time-consuming, and require advanced skills for appropriate interpretation. Nevertheless, the technology is rapidly improving, and the expectations for the implementation of liquid biopsy into the clinical practice in the near future are high.

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Biomarkers, TumorHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingLiquid BiopsyCirculating Tumor DNADisease ManagementHealth PolicyHumansNeoplasmsBiomarkers, TumorCirculating Tumor DNACirculating tumor DNALiquid biopsyNext-generation sequencingTargeted sequencingUntargeted sequencing

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