Liquid biopsy for pediatric brain tumor patients: is it prime time yet?

Liana Nobre^{1

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3}, Cynthia Hawkins^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Division of Haematology and Oncology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Division of Pathology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Editorial

Liana Nobre et al. Neuro Oncol. 2022.

. 2022 Oct 3;24(10):1773-1775.

doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noac140.

Liana Nobre^{1

2

3}, Cynthia Hawkins^{1

4

5}

¹ Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Division of Haematology and Oncology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Division of Pathology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Figures

Next-generation sequencing of cerebrospinal fluid for clinical molecular diagnostics in pediatric, adolescent and young adult brain tumor patients.
Miller AM, Szalontay L, Bouvier N, Hill K, Ahmad H, Rafailov J, Lee AJ, Rodriguez-Sanchez MI, Yildirim O, Patel A, Bale TA, Benhamida JK, Benayed R, Arcila ME, Donzelli M, Dunkel IJ, Gilheeney SW, Khakoo Y, Kramer K, Sait SF, Greenfield JP, Souweidane MM, Haque S, Mauguen A, Berger MF, Mellinghoff IK, Karajannis MA. Miller AM, et al. Neuro Oncol. 2022 Oct 3;24(10):1763-1772. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noac035. Neuro Oncol. 2022. PMID: 35148412 Free PMC article.

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