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ReviewJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2023

Genomic approaches to cancer and minimal residual disease detection using circulating tumor DNA.

Nicholas P Semenkovich, Jeffrey J Szymanski, Noah Earland, Pradeep S Chauhan, Bruna Pellini, Aadel A Chaudhuri

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
68citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
18.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

68 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Circulating tumor DNA as a predictive biomarker for colorectal cancer postsurgical recurrence: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  4. Value and research advances of ctDNA in perioperative therapy for non-small cell lung cancer.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  6. Applications of circulating tumor DNA in unresectable and advanced non-small cell lung cancer immunotherapy: from stratification to therapeutic guidance.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  8. Circulating tumor DNA-based detection of molecular residual disease in isocitrate dehydrogenase-mutant cholangiocarcinoma for biomarker-guided therapy.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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  10. A Noninvasive Circulating Tumor DNA Methylation Classifier to Identify Benign Pulmonary Nodules.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026
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  18. Overcoming tumour resistance in cancer immunotherapy through predictive and pharmacodynamic biomarkers.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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8 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nicholas P SemenkovichDivision of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5266-6734
Jeffrey J SzymanskiDivision of Cancer Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Noah EarlandDivision of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Pradeep S ChauhanDivision of Cancer Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Bruna PelliniDepartment of Thoracic Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Aadel A ChaudhuriDivision of Cancer Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA aadel@wustl.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-3115-3061
Washington University in St. Louis · USUniversity of South Florida · US

Funding

Washington University Participant Engagement and Cancer Genomic Sequencing Center (WU-PE-CGS)U2CCA252981 · NCI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI GRAHAM A. COLDITZ, Li Ding · 2021 to 2026
$18.5M
DIABETES &RELATED METABOLIC DISEASEST32DK007120 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MARCO COLONNA, Maria Sara Remedi · 1986 to 2026
$15.7M
Cell-free DNA epigenomics to track the dynamics of organ damage and immune exhaustion during sepsisR35GM142710 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI CHAUDHURI, AADEL · 2021 to 2025
$2.0M
NCI NIH HHS U2C CA252981NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK007120NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM142710
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liquid biopsies using cell-free circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) are being used frequently in both research and clinical settings. ctDNA can be used to identify actionable mutations to personalize systemic therapy, detect post-treatment minimal residual disease (MRD), and predict responses to immunotherapy. ctDNA can also be isolated from a range of different biofluids, with the possibility of detecting locoregional MRD with increased sensitivity if sampling more proximally than blood plasma. However, ctDNA detection remains challenging in early-stage and post-treatment MRD settings where ctDNA levels are minuscule giving a high risk for false negative results, which is balanced with the risk of false positive results from clonal hematopoiesis. To address these challenges, researchers have developed ever-more elegant approaches to lower the limit of detection (LOD) of ctDNA assays toward the part-per-million range and boost assay sensitivity and specificity by reducing sources of low-level technical and biological noise, and by harnessing specific genomic and epigenomic features of ctDNA. In this review, we highlight a range of modern assays for ctDNA analysis, including advancements made to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. We further highlight the challenge of detecting ultra-rare tumor-associated variants, overcoming which will improve the sensitivity of post-treatment MRD detection and open a new frontier of personalized adjuvant treatment decision-making.

Indexed as

Circulating Tumor DNAGenomicsHumansNeoplasm, ResidualCirculating Tumor DNA

Identifiers

PMID37349125
PMCPMC10314661
OpenAlexW4381714968

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