… services to cancer research. Her research interests span tumor biology, biomarker discovery, preclinical … Biomarker Research program, she became fascinated with circulating tumor cells (CTCs) for use as a liquid biopsy. … proud that some of the earliest work on circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) done with AstraZeneca and Professor Andrew …

… complex malignancy. Liquid biopsy, and especially plasma ctDNA, can be used in many clinical settings where tissue is … that IASLC is in the forefront in this arena.” Although tumor tissue is historically the gold standard biospecimen … biopsy approach includes a variety of methodologies for circulating analytes. From a clinical point of view, plasma …

… biology and its evolution over time, using tools like circulating tumour DNA from liquid biopsies, to match patients to the adjuvant … a targeted therapy,” she stated. “The possibility to study circulating tumour cells from blood samples has been a …

… Award to Gabriella Sozzi, PhD. Dr. Sozzi leads the Tumor Genomics Unit at Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori (INT) in Milan, Italy. She graduated in Biological … of lung cancer in screening programs. In the field of circulating biomarkers, she has a demonstrated record of …

… 2021, 9 a.m. GMT/10 a.m. CDT/11 a.m. EDT) --Pre-treatment circulating tumor (ct)DNA levels more accurately predicted long-term survival than …

… PD-L1 inhibition overcomes T-cell suppression at the tumor; and chemotherapy causes tumor cell death and antigen … molecularly characterized via sequencing of tumor tissue DNA and/or circulating tumor DNA samples. Progression free survival and …

… specific cancer’s growth and progression. Patients whose tumors harbor certain, specific molecular alterations may be … EGFR  T790M in relapse may be done by biopsy or cell-free circulating DNA.  However cell-free DNA is not appropriate for initial …

… predictive biomarkers, which may enable better targeting of tumor characteristics. Its aims to accelerate development of … and novel diagnostic approaches – like the detection of circulating tumor DNA in blood samples – to identify patients with a poor …