Longitudinal therapy monitoring of ALK-positive lung cancer by combined copy number and targeted mutation profiling of cell-free DNA

Background: Targeted therapies (TKI) have improved the prognosis of ALK-rearranged lung cancer (ALK+ NSCLC), but clinical courses vary widely. Early identification and molecular characterisation of treatment failure have key importance for subsequent therapies. We performed copy number variation (CN...

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Main Authors: Steffen Dietz, Petros Christopoulos, Zhao Yuan, Arlou Kristina Angeles, Lisa Gu, Anna-Lena Volckmar, Simon J. Ogrodnik, Florian Janke, Chiara Dalle Fratte, Tomasz Zemojtel, Marc A. Schneider, Daniel Kazdal, Volker Endris, Michael Meister, Thomas Muley, Erika Cecchin, Martin Reck, Matthias Schlesner, Michael Thomas, Albrecht Stenzinger, Holger Sültmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:EBioMedicine
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396420304795