"Liquid Gold" - The unTAPped Potential of Cerebrospinal Fluid Analysis?

ABSTRACT: Obtaining blood and cerebrospinal fluid is generally less invasive than standard tumor biopsy, and are increasingly used to develop surrogate biomarkers. Leptomeningeal disease, a devastating complication of cancer, represents a unique opportunity for using liquid biopsies for diagnosis, treatment, and to elucidate underlying mechanisms of resistance to therapy.See related article by Smalley et al., p. 2163.

SUBMITTER: Glitza Oliva IC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10664042 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature