Applications of liquid biopsies for cancer

Affiliations

¹ Ludwig Center and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1650 Orleans St., CRB1, Room 520, Baltimore, MD 21128, USA.
² Ludwig Center and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1650 Orleans St., CRB1, Room 520, Baltimore, MD 21128, USA. vogelbe@jhmi.edu.

Review

Austin K Mattox et al. Sci Transl Med. 2019.

. 2019 Aug 28;11(507):eaay1984.

doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aay1984.

¹ Ludwig Center and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1650 Orleans St., CRB1, Room 520, Baltimore, MD 21128, USA.
² Ludwig Center and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1650 Orleans St., CRB1, Room 520, Baltimore, MD 21128, USA. vogelbe@jhmi.edu.

Abstract

Liquid biopsies have the potential to detect, characterize, and monitor cancers earlier than is possible with conventional approaches.