Further, an increasing trend of DNA integrity was observed from healthy controls (0.35 ± 0.27) to breast cancer stages of I–III (0.53 ± 0.23) to stage IV cases (0.60 ± 0.26).
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Circulating cell-free DNA and its integrity as a prognostic marker for breast cancer.
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One study has reported a borderline significance between the plasma tumor DNA and DFS in multivariate analysis with tumor size, lymph node and tumor stage (Silva et al. 2002b ).
When each patient was categorized as high or low based on the median levels of each biomarker among alive patients, only ALU115 showed marginally significant association with OS.