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Circulating tumour cells and circulating cell-free DNA in patients with lung cancer: a comparison between thoracotomy and video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.

Periklis KatopodisVladimir AnikinUday KishoreThomas CarterMarcia HallNizar AsadiAndreas PolychronisEmmanouil Karteris
Published in: BMJ open respiratory research (2021)
In this study we have shown the potential clinical utility of several biomarkers from liquid biopsies to guide perioperative management, as well as provide a snapshot of the type of surgical resection in terms of circulating tumour cell release. Obtaining reliable readouts from blood can provide crucial information for disease progression, as well as being of prognostic value monitoring patients' response to treatment.
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