Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Non-invasive early detection of cancer four years before conventional diagnosis using a blood test

  • Xingdong Chen,
  • Jeffrey Gole,
  • Athurva Gore,
  • Qiye He,
  • Ming Lu,
  • Jun Min,
  • Ziyu Yuan,
  • Xiaorong Yang,
  • Yanfeng Jiang,
  • Tiejun Zhang,
  • Chen Suo,
  • Xiaojie Li,
  • Lei Cheng,
  • Zhenhua Zhang,
  • Hongyu Niu,
  • Zhe Li,
  • Zhen Xie,
  • Han Shi,
  • Xiang Zhang,
  • Min Fan,
  • Xiaofeng Wang,
  • Yajun Yang,
  • Justin Dang,
  • Catie McConnell,
  • Juan Zhang,
  • Jiucun Wang,
  • Shunzhang Yu,
  • Weimin Ye,
  • Yuan Gao,
  • Kun Zhang,
  • Rui Liu,
  • Li Jin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17316-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Patients whose disease is diagnosed in its early stages have better outcomes. In this study, the authors develop a non invasive blood test based on circulating tumor DNA methylation that can potentially detect cancer occurrence even in asymptomatic patients.