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Circulating Tumor DNA Testing for Minimal Residual Disease and Its Application in Colorectal Cancer.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Efficacy of circulating tumour DNA in guiding postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy for resectable colorectal cancer: A meta-analysis based on cohort studies.Oncology letters · 2026Article
- Beyond the biopsy: the new era of non-invasive staging and biomarkers in colorectal cancer.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026Review
- Practical integration of ctDNA-defined minimal residual disease in gastrointestinal cancers: testing windows and evidence-aligned management frameworks.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026Review
- Translational feasibility of a plasmonic microarray-based liquid biopsy for KRAS codon mutation detection across tissue, plasma, and urine in early colorectal cancer.NPJ precision oncology · 2026Article
- No survival benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy in high-risk stage II small intestinal adenocarcinoma after surgery: a population-based long-term survival analysis.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2026Article
- Multistep ctDNA Monitoring of Minimal Residual Disease in Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases: From Tissue NGS to Highly Sensitive Digital PCR Platforms.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Harnessing early postoperative MRD and VAF dynamics for precision prognosis in resected colorectal liver metastases.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2026Article
- ctDNA in the Management of Resectable & Advanced Colorectal Cancer: Current Status and Future Directions.OncoTargets and therapy · 2026Review
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- The Role of Circulating Tumor DNA in Patients Treated with Adjuvant Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Clinical Reality or Distant Horizon?Current oncology reports · 2025Review
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- Cerebrospinal fluid liquid biopsy identifies primary CNS lymphoma in a patient with concurrent lung adenocarcinoma and indeterminate brain lesion.Neuro-oncology advancesArticle
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Abstract
Colorectal cancer (CRC) represents a heterogeneous group of diseases that imposes a considerable global and national health burden. Although most CRC patients are diagnosed at an early stage and undergo potentially curative treatment, a significant proportion experience recurrence. Currently, adjuvant chemotherapy decisions are primarily based on clinicopathological characteristics, which have well-recognized limitations in accurately identifying patients harboring minimal residual disease (MRD), often resulting in unnecessary chemotherapy exposure. Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) has emerged as a promising surrogate marker for MRD, offering a more precise approach to identifying patients at risk of recurrence after curative-intent surgery and refining adjuvant chemotherapy decisions. Growing evidence from multiple studies has demonstrated that ctDNA outperforms traditional clinicopathological factors as a marker for MRD. This review synthesizes key studies supporting the role of ctDNA in MRD detection for CRC patients and evaluates clinical trials investigating the application of ctDNA in guiding adjuvant therapy decisions. This emerging strategy holds the potential to transform the adjuvant treatment paradigm in colorectal cancer by optimizing therapeutic precision and minimizing unnecessary treatment.
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