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SUBMITTER: Nuzzo PV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8288043 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Nature medicine 20200622 7
Improving early cancer detection has the potential to substantially reduce cancer-related mortality. Cell-free methylated DNA immunoprecipitation and high-throughput sequencing (cfMeDIP-seq) is a highly sensitive assay capable of detecting early-stage tumors. We report accurate classification of patients across all stages of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in plasma (area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) curve of 0.99) and demonstrate the validity of this assay to identify patients ...[more]