Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

White blood cell and cell-free DNA analyses for detection of residual disease in gastric cancer

  • Alessandro Leal,
  • Nicole C. T. van Grieken,
  • Doreen N. Palsgrove,
  • Jillian Phallen,
  • Jamie E. Medina,
  • Carolyn Hruban,
  • Mark A. M. Broeckaert,
  • Valsamo Anagnostou,
  • Vilmos Adleff,
  • Daniel C. Bruhm,
  • Jenna V. Canzoniero,
  • Jacob Fiksel,
  • Marianne Nordsmark,
  • Fabienne A. R. M. Warmerdam,
  • Henk M. W. Verheul,
  • Dick Johan van Spronsen,
  • Laurens V. Beerepoot,
  • Maud M. Geenen,
  • Johanneke E. A. Portielje,
  • Edwin P. M. Jansen,
  • Johanna van Sandick,
  • Elma Meershoek-Klein Kranenbarg,
  • Hanneke W. M. van Laarhoven,
  • Donald L. van der Peet,
  • Cornelis J. H. van de Velde,
  • Marcel Verheij,
  • Remond Fijneman,
  • Robert B. Scharpf,
  • Gerrit A. Meijer,
  • Annemieke Cats,
  • Victor E. Velculescu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14310-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Identifying patients that will respond to a particular therapy remains a key challenge in precision oncology. Here, in gastric cancer, the authors show that circulating tumour DNA can predict recurrence, provided that the signal from white blood cells is filtered out.