Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32166219›Full record

ReviewEpigenetics insights2020

Liquid Biopsy: The Unique Test for Chasing the Genetics of Solid Tumors.

Seyed Mohammad Kazem Aghamir, Ramin Heshmat, Mehdi Ebrahimi, Fatemeh Khatami

Open access · bronzeAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Epigenetics insights, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Age limit for familial prostate cancer screening.Caspian journal of internal medicine · 2025
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Review
  6. Review
  7. Correlation betweenJournal of oncology · 2022
    Review
  8. Review
  9. Epigenetically inactivated RASSF1A as a tumor biomarker.Bosnian journal of basic medical sciences · 2021
    Review
  10. Review
  11. Review
  12. Review
  13. Review
  14. Plasma circRNAs as Biomarkers in Cancer.Cancer management and research · 2021
    Review
  15. Review
  16. Review
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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Seyed Mohammad Kazem AghamirUrology Research Center (URC), Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Ramin HeshmatChronic Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mehdi EbrahimiDepartment of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran Iran.
Fatemeh KhatamiUrology Research Center (URC), Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6311-1336
Sina Hospital · IRTehran University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Blood test is a kind of liquid biopsy that checks cancer cells or cancer nucleic acids circulating freely from cells in the blood. A liquid biopsy may be used to distinguish cancer at early stages and it could be a game-changer for both cancer diagnosis and prognosis strategies. Liquid biopsy tests consider several tumor components, such as DNA, RNA, proteins, and the tiny vesicles originating from tumor cells. Actually, liquid biopsy signifies the genetic alterations of tumors through nucleic acids or cells in various body fluids, including blood, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, or saliva in a noninvasive manner. In this review, we present an overall description of liquid biopsy in which circulating tumor cells, cell-free nucleic acids, exosomes, and extrachromosomal circular DNA are included.

Indexed as

cell-free nucleic acids (cfNAs)circulating tumor cells (CTCs)exosomesLiquid biopsy

Identifiers

PMID32166219
PMCPMC7050026
OpenAlexW3007362983

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.