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• News & Views | 25 October 2017

  Treasure trove for cancer medicine

  Fragments of DNA that are derived from dead tumour cells and shed into a patient's blood have been utilized as biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of liver cancer.

  • Miljana Tanić
  •  & Stephan Beck

• Article | 09 October 2017

  Circulating tumour DNA methylation markers for diagnosis and prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma

  Circulating tumour DNA is used as a biomarker for cancer diagnosis. Here, the authors identified a DNA methylation biomarker for hepatocellular carcinoma and developed diagnostic and prognostic models to predict specificity and survival of patients.

  • Rui-hua Xu
  • , Wei Wei
  •  & Kang Zhang