Liquid biopsy in lymphoma: Is it primed for clinical translation?

Abstract The simultaneous growth in our understanding of lymphoma biology and the burgeoning therapeutic options has come with a renewed drive for precision‐based approaches and how best to incorporate them into contemporary and future patient care. In the hunt for accurate and sensitive biomarkers,...

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Main Authors: Edward Poynton, Jessica Okosun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-08-01
Series:eJHaem
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/jha2.212
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description Abstract The simultaneous growth in our understanding of lymphoma biology and the burgeoning therapeutic options has come with a renewed drive for precision‐based approaches and how best to incorporate them into contemporary and future patient care. In the hunt for accurate and sensitive biomarkers, liquid biopsies, particularly circulating tumour DNA, have come to the forefront as a promising tool in multiple cancer types including lymphomas, with considerable implications for clinical practice. Liquid biopsy analyses could supplement existing tissue biopsies with distinct advantages including the minimally invasive nature and the ease with which it can be repeated during a patient's clinical journey. Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) analyses has been and continues to be evaluated across lymphoma subtypes with potential applications as a diagnostic, disease monitoring and treatment selection tool. To make the leap into the clinic, these assays must demonstrate accuracy, reliability and a quick turnaround to be employed in the real‐time clinical management of lymphoma patients. Here, we review the available ctDNA assays and discuss key practical and technical issues around improving sensitivity. We then focus on their potential roles in several lymphoma subtypes exemplified by recent studies and provide a glimpse of different features that can be analysed beyond ctDNA.
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spelling doaj.art-069e1831453947dcaf338fd8eaa683072023-08-21T14:10:34ZengWileyeJHaem2688-61462021-08-012361662710.1002/jha2.212Liquid biopsy in lymphoma: Is it primed for clinical translation?Edward Poynton0Jessica Okosun1Centre for Haemato‐Oncology Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London London UKCentre for Haemato‐Oncology Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London London UKAbstract The simultaneous growth in our understanding of lymphoma biology and the burgeoning therapeutic options has come with a renewed drive for precision‐based approaches and how best to incorporate them into contemporary and future patient care. In the hunt for accurate and sensitive biomarkers, liquid biopsies, particularly circulating tumour DNA, have come to the forefront as a promising tool in multiple cancer types including lymphomas, with considerable implications for clinical practice. Liquid biopsy analyses could supplement existing tissue biopsies with distinct advantages including the minimally invasive nature and the ease with which it can be repeated during a patient's clinical journey. Circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) analyses has been and continues to be evaluated across lymphoma subtypes with potential applications as a diagnostic, disease monitoring and treatment selection tool. To make the leap into the clinic, these assays must demonstrate accuracy, reliability and a quick turnaround to be employed in the real‐time clinical management of lymphoma patients. Here, we review the available ctDNA assays and discuss key practical and technical issues around improving sensitivity. We then focus on their potential roles in several lymphoma subtypes exemplified by recent studies and provide a glimpse of different features that can be analysed beyond ctDNA.https://doi.org/10.1002/jha2.212biomarkerscirculating tumour DNAliquid biopsylymphoma
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Liquid biopsy in lymphoma: Is it primed for clinical translation?
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circulating tumour DNA
liquid biopsy
lymphoma
title Liquid biopsy in lymphoma: Is it primed for clinical translation?
title_full Liquid biopsy in lymphoma: Is it primed for clinical translation?
title_fullStr Liquid biopsy in lymphoma: Is it primed for clinical translation?
title_full_unstemmed Liquid biopsy in lymphoma: Is it primed for clinical translation?
title_short Liquid biopsy in lymphoma: Is it primed for clinical translation?
title_sort liquid biopsy in lymphoma is it primed for clinical translation
topic biomarkers
circulating tumour DNA
liquid biopsy
lymphoma
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