Combined Analysis of Concordance between Liquid and Tumor Tissue Biopsies for RAS Mutations in Colorectal Cancer with a Single Metastasis Site: The METABEAM Study.
Yoshinori KagawaElena ElezJesús García-FoncillasHideaki BandoHiroya TaniguchiAna VivancosKiwamu AkagiAriadna GarcíaTadamichi DendaJavier RosTomohiro NishinaIosune BaraibarYoshito KomatsuDavide CiardielloEiji OkiToshihiro KudoTakeshi KatoTakeharu YamanakaJosep TaberneroTakayuki YoshinoPublished in: Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (2021)
Plasma ctDNA-based liquid biopsy in patients with mCRC may be useful depending on the metastatic site. The maximum diameter and lesion number should be carefully considered when determining patients' RAS status with only peritoneal or lung metastases.