ReviewCancers2021
Role of Circulating Tumor DNA in Gastrointestinal Cancers: Current Knowledge and Perspectives.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- Circulating tumor DNA in gastrointestinal cancers: promise, pitfalls, and the path forward.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Review
- Circulating tumor DNA-guided response evaluation in patients with previously treated gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma.Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association · 2026Article
- Revolutionizing lung cancer screening: the rise of artificial intelligence integrating circulating tumor markers.World journal of surgical oncology · 2026Review
- Liquid biopsy biomarkers for early detection of gastrointestinal cancers: Current landscape and emerging technologies.Clinical and translational medicine · 2026Review
- Circulating tumor DNA in appendiceal malignancies: a comprehensive review of clinical applications and limitations.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
- Emerging advances and future opportunities in the molecular and therapeutic landscape of anal cancer.Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2025Review
- Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Advanced Hydrogels as Tools for Gastrointestinal Diagnostics.Gels (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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- Liquid biopsy in gastric cancer: A snapshot of the current state of the art.The journal of liquid biopsy · 2025Review
- Circulating tumor DNA detection improves relapse prediction in epithelial ovarian cancer.BMC cancer · 2024Article
- Emerging Therapeutic Targets and Future Directions in Advanced Gastric Cancer: A Comprehensive Review.Cancers · 2024Review
- HER2-directed therapy following ctDNA-identifiedESMO gastrointestinal oncology · 2024Article
- Systemic inflammatory biomarkers as prognostic tools in patients with gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2023Article
- Perioperative therapy landscape for locally advanced, resectable esophageal cancer: an updated literature review.Journal of thoracic disease · 2023Review
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- Advances in novel strategies for isolation, characterization, and analysis of CTCs and ctDNA.Therapeutic advances in medical oncology · 2023Review
- Biomarkers in Anal Cancer: Current Status in Diagnosis, Disease Progression and Therapeutic Strategies.Biomedicines · 2022Review
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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers are major health burdens worldwide and biomarkers are needed to improve the management of these diseases along their evolution. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is a promising non-invasive blood and other bodily-fluid-based biomarker in cancer management that can help clinicians in various cases for the detection, diagnosis, prognosis, monitoring and personalization of treatment in digestive oncology. In addition to the well-studied prognostic role of ctDNA, the main real-world applications appear to be the assessment of minimal residual disease to further guide adjuvant therapy and predict relapse, but also the monitoring of clonal evolution to tailor treatments in metastatic setting. Other challenges such as predicting response to treatment including immune checkpoint inhibitors could also be among the potential applications of ctDNA. Although the level of advancement of ctDNA development in the different tumor localizations is still inhomogeneous, it might be now reliable enough to be soon used in clinical routine for colorectal cancers and shows promising results in other GI cancers.
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