Prognostic implications of preoperative versus postoperative circulating tumor DNA in surgically resected lung cancer patients: a pilot study.

Transl Lung Cancer Res · 2020 · PMC7653121 · PMID 33209612

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Four patients (20%) were positive for postoperative ctDNA, and postoperative ctDNA positivity was significantly correlated with histological Grade 3 (P=0.032), while pathological tumor size did not reach statistical significance (P=0.061).

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