BACKGROUnD The mutation-based analysis of circulating tumor DnA(ctDnA)is a promising diagnostic tool for clinical ***,it has low success rate because many cancer patients do not have detectable ctDnA in the *** To eva...
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BACKGROUnD The mutation-based analysis of circulating tumor DnA(ctDnA)is a promising diagnostic tool for clinical ***,it has low success rate because many cancer patients do not have detectable ctDnA in the *** To evaluate whether preoperative tumor irradiation results in a transient increase of plasma ctDnA concentration due to the induction of apoptosis in radiationexposed *** This study focused on patients with locally advanced rectal cancer,because preoperative tumor irradiation is a part of their standard treatment *** subjects,whose tumors contained KRAS,nRAS or BRAF mutations,donated serial blood samples 1 h prior to the first fraction of irradiation(at baseline),immediately after the first fraction(time 0),and 1,3,6,12,24,36,48,72 and 96 h after the first *** amount of mutated gene copies was measured by droplet digital *** Five out of nine patients were mutation-negative by ctDnA test at baseline;two of these subjects demonstrated an emergence of the mutated DnA copies in the bloodstream within the follow-up *** were 4 patients,who had detectable ctDnA in the plasma at the start of the experiment;three of them showed an evident treatment-induced increase of the content of mutated RAS/RAF *** Local tumor irradiation may facilitate the detection of tumor-specific DnA in the *** data justify further assessment of the clinical feasibility of irradiation-assisted liquid biopsy.
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