Liquid Biopsy in Cancer Patients The Hand Lens for Tumor Evolution /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Russo, Antonio (Editor), Giordano, Antonio (Editor), Rolfo, Christian (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Humana Press, 2017.
• Series: Current Clinical Pathology,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Oncology.; Pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.

This text is designed to provide readers with a useful and comprehensive resource and state-of-the-art overview about the new, growing and fast-expanding field of “liquid biopsy” for the management of cancer patients. The liquid biopsy represents an important turning point in oncology since it provi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Precision Medicine: Are We There?
• Clonal Cancer Evolution and Intra-tumor Heterogeneity
• Tissue vs. Liquid Biopsy: Opposite or Complementary?
• Technical Aspects for the Evaluation of Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs)
• Technical Aspects for the Evaluation of Circulating Nucleic Acids (CNA): Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) and Circulating MicroRNAs
• Technical Aspects for the Evaluation of Exosome and their Content
• Liquid Biopsy in Breast Cancer
• Liquid Biopsy in Head and Neck Cancers
• Liquid Biopsy in NSCLC
• Liquid Biopsy in Gastric Cancer
• Liquid Biopsy in Pancreatic Cancer
• Liquid Biopsy in HCC
• Liquid Biopsy in CRC
• Liquid Biopsy in GIST
• Liquid Biopsy in Kidney Cancer
• Liquid Biopsy in Melanoma.