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Detection of renal cell carcinoma using plasma and urine cell-free DNA methylomes.

Pier Vitale NuzzoJacob E BerchuckKeegan KorthauerSandor SpisakAmin H NassarSarah Abou AlaiwiAnkur ChakravarthyShu Yi ShenZiad BakounyFrancesco BoccardoJohn SteinharterGabrielle BouchardCatherine R CurranWenting PanSylvan C BacaJi-Heui SeoGwo-Shu Mary LeeM Dror MichaelsonSteven L ChangSushrut S WaikarGuru SonpavdeRafael A IrizarryMark PomerantzDaniel D De CarvalhoToni K ChoueiriMatthew L Freedman
Published in: Nature medicine (2020)
Improving early cancer detection has the potential to substantially reduce cancer-related mortality. Cell-free methylated DNA immunoprecipitation and high-throughput sequencing (cfMeDIP-seq) is a highly sensitive assay capable of detecting early-stage tumors. We report accurate classification of patients across all stages of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in plasma (area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) curve of 0.99) and demonstrate the validity of this assay to identify patients with RCC using urine cell-free DNA (cfDNA; AUROC of 0.86).
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