Liquid biopsies: Understanding ctDNA and circulating tumor cells
What if we could know more about a tumor just from a patient’s blood sample? While this concept is well-established with blood cancers like leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma, it’s now being applied to solid tumors, including breast cancer, colorectal cancer, bladder cancer, prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, melanoma and lung cancer.
Known as a liquid biopsy, we can learn what’s going on inside a patient’s body by examining...
How fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) fits into cancer care
Many cancers grow when there’s a glitch in the DNA of our cells. Sometimes that error is passed down from a parent to their child, and sometimes...