Tests for Early Detection of Multiple Cancers Using Cell-Free DNA in Blood Appear to Lack Clinical Utility

Tests that detect abnormal cancer genes (DNA) circulating freely in the blood to identify nearly 50 types of cancer early are ...
BIOENGINEER

Blood Test Tracks Prostate Cancer’s Evolving Genome in Real Time

A comprehensive review shows circulating tumour DNA offers powerful prognostic insight across all major mCRPC treatments, but ...
Medscape

Cell-Free DNA Blood Test Shows Strong Performance in Detecting Early-Stage CRC

A novel, blood-based test developed using fragmentomic features of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) detects colorectal cancer (CRC) with a 90.4% sensitivity and shows consistent performance across stages and ...
BIOENGINEER

Cell-free DNA methylation markers emerge as promising liquid biopsy tools for detecting hepatitis B-related liver cancer

A new review highlights how cell-free DNA methylation markers, shaped in part by hepatitis B virus-driven epigenetic changes, ...
News Medical

New blood test spots four cancers and other diseases by stripping away healthy DNA noise

Study: Toward the simultaneous detection of multiple diseases with a highly cost-effective cell-free DNA methylome test. Image Credit: 3dMediSphere / Shutterstock In a recent study published in the ...
Healio

Single cell-free DNA test accurately detects fetal antigen status in alloimmunized women

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cell-free fetal antigen analyses had 100% consistency for 465 calls on antigens in which women were ...
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Cell-free DNA could detect adverse events from immunotherapy

A noninvasive blood test to detect genetic material shed by tumors may help clinicians identify adverse events related to treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitor drugs, investigators at the Johns ...