Anirban Maitra, Professor of Pathology and Translational Molecular Pathology at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, posted on X:
“Proof of principle study from Vogelstein et al in Cancer Discovery showing that in 4 of 6 patients with pre-diagnostic blood samples available 3-3.5 years prior to manifest cancer diagnosis, very low level mutations were detectable in the blood.”
Title: Detection of cancers three years prior to diagnosis using plasma cell-free DNA
Authors: Yuxuan Wang, Corinne E. Joshu, Samuel D. Curtis, Christopher Douville, Vernon A. Burk, Meng Ru, Maria Popoli, Janine Ptak, Lisa Dobbyn, Natalie Silliman, Josef Coresh, Eric Boerwinkle, Anna Prizment, Chetan Bettegowda, Kenneth W. Kinzler, Nickolas Papadopoulos, Elizabeth A. Platz, Bert Vogelstein
Read The Full Article at AACR Cancer Discovery.
More posts featuring Anirban Maitra.