What the blood knows: interrogating circulating tumor DNA to predict progression of minimal residual disease in early breast cancer

Affiliations

¹ Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.

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Melanie Majure et al. Ann Transl Med. 2016 Dec.

. 2016 Dec;4(24):543.

doi: 10.21037/atm.2016.11.77.

¹ Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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