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ReviewBiomedicines2020

The Liquid Biopsy in the Management of Colorectal Cancer: An Overview.

Marco Vacante, Roberto Ciuni, Francesco Basile, Antonio Biondi

Registry-linked trialOpen access · goldAbstract readReview
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Review in Biomedicines, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07126626 (Multi-center Prospective Validation of the SPOT-MAS Lung Test Using Circulating Tumor DNA for the Detection of Lung Cancer), which is not on this map. Cited by 52 papers.

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52citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT07126626 not yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Multi-center Prospective Validation of the SPOT-MAS Lung Test Using Circulating Tumor DNA for the Detection of Lung Cancer

TypeobservationalSponsorGene SolutionsRan2025 to 2027Enrolled1,184ConditionsLung Diseases, Lung Cancer Screening
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. A scoping review of factors influencing the implementation of liquid biopsy for cancer care.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2025
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  13. Liquid Biopsy in the Clinical Management of Cancers.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  15. Innovation in Non-Invasive Diagnosis and Disease Monitoring for Meningiomas.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Marco VacanteDepartment of General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, University of Catania, Via S. Sofia 78, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6815-5012
Roberto CiuniDepartment of General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, University of Catania, Via S. Sofia 78, 95123 Catania, Italy.
Francesco BasileDepartment of General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, University of Catania, Via S. Sofia 78, 95123 Catania, Italy.
Antonio BiondiDepartment of General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, University of Catania, Via S. Sofia 78, 95123 Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9374-779X
University of Catania · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Currently, there is a crucial need for novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers with high specificity and sensitivity in patients with colorectal cancer. A "liquid biopsy" is characterized by the isolation of cancer-derived components, such as circulating tumor cells, circulating tumor DNA, microRNAs, long non-coding RNAs, and proteins, from peripheral blood or other body fluids and their genomic or proteomic assessment. The liquid biopsy is a minimally invasive and repeatable technique that could play a significant role in screening and diagnosis, and predict relapse and metastasis, as well as monitoring minimal residual disease and chemotherapy resistance in colorectal cancer patients. However, there are still some practical issues that need to be addressed before liquid biopsy can be widely used in clinical practice. Potential challenges may include low amounts of circulating tumor cells and circulating tumor DNA in samples, lack of pre-analytical and analytical consensus, clinical validation, and regulatory endorsement. The aim of this review was to summarize the current knowledge of the role of liquid biopsy in the management of colorectal cancer.

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biomarkerscirculating tumor cellscirculating tumor DNAcolorectal cancerliquid biopsy

Identifiers

PMID32858879
PMCPMC7555636
OpenAlexW3080146232

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