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  • Leveraging ctDNA to Detect Minimal Residual Disease Following Surgery

    Leveraging ctDNA to Detect Minimal Residual Disease Following Surgery

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    Curative therapy remains elusive in early-stage NSCLC following surgical resection, sometimes even for patients with stage I disease. Adjuvant therapy can be of benefit, but only for a select few. As shown in the Lung Adjuvant Cisplatin Evaluation (LACE) meta-analysis, platinum doublet chemotherapy, the current standard of care following complete resection of stage II/III NSCLC, only improved 5-year survival by 5.4%.1  “There is clearly unmet…


  • TRACERx Data Show That Tracking MRD With ctDNA Heralds Disease Relapse

    TRACERx Data Show That Tracking MRD With ctDNA Heralds Disease Relapse

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    By Kara Nyberg, PhD Posted: June 24, 2020 New findings from the TRACERx lung study underscore the value of using circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) to predict NSCLC relapse postsurgery based on the detection of minimal residual disease (MRD). Moreover, the results appear sufficiently robust to begin to support use of ctDNA as a biomarker for…