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Volume 1 Issue 4, April 2017

Early cancer diagnosis

This focus issue highlights advances in the isolation of cancer biomarkers in blood and in diagnostic or imaging probes for the early detection of cancer.

The cover illustrates a lipid-based nanoprobe for the isolation of nanoscale extracellular vesicles (Article; News & Views).

Image by Xin Zou, Yuan Wan and Si-Yang Zheng.

Volume 1 Issue 4

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  • The early detection of cancer demands translatable light-emitting or light-collecting probes with unprecedented levels of sensitivity and specificity.

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  • The clinical utility of diagnostic markers extracted from liquid biopsies from cancer patients is hampered by knowledge gaps in biological understanding but can be aided by technological developments.

    • Catherine Alix-Panabières
    • Klaus Pantel

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