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ReviewCancers2024

The Role of Circulating Tumor DNA in Ovarian Cancer.

Anna Golara, Mateusz Kozłowski, Aneta Cymbaluk-Płoska

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Review in Cancers, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 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

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

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

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  6. Special Issue "Biomarkers and Early Detection Strategies of Ovarian Tumors".International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Anna GolaraDepartment of Reconstructive Surgery and Gynecological Oncology, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Al. Powstańców Wielkopolskich 72, 70-111 Szczecin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-4300-4557
Mateusz KozłowskiDepartment of Reconstructive Surgery and Gynecological Oncology, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Al. Powstańców Wielkopolskich 72, 70-111 Szczecin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-1176-2153
Aneta Cymbaluk-PłoskaDepartment of Reconstructive Surgery and Gynecological Oncology, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Al. Powstańców Wielkopolskich 72, 70-111 Szczecin, Poland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ovarian cancer is the deadliest of all gynecological diseases because its diagnosis and treatment still pose many problems. Surgical excision, hormone therapy, radiation, chemotherapy, or targeted therapy for eradicating the main tumor and halting the spread of metastases are among the treatment options available to individuals with ovarian cancer, depending on the disease's stage. Tumor DNA that circulates in a patient's bodily fluids has been studied recently as a possible novel biomarker for a number of cancers, as well as a means of quantifying tumor size and evaluating the efficacy of cancer therapy. The most significant alterations that we could find in the ctDNA of ovarian cancer patients-such as chromosomal instability, somatic mutations, and methylation-are discussed in this review. Additionally, we talk about the utility of ctDNA in diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy response prediction for these patients.

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chromosomal instabilityctDNAmethylationovarian cancersomatic mutations

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PMID39335089
PMCPMC11430586

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