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Personalising care in oesophageal cancer care with liquid biopsy

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The advent of ctDNA has the potential to be a game changer in some cancers, but limited data is available in oesophago-gastric cancers (OGC). The prognostic value of ctDNA and the potential for false positive results due to clonal haematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) was recently reported in operable OGC.

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Fig. 1: ctDNA in resected oesophago-gastric cancer: study schematic.

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We acknowledge the patients who kindly agreed to take part on the Ococks et al. study.

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B.de.P. and E.S. contributed equally on the draft conception, writing and review.

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Bruno de Paula declares personal consultancy fees and/or travel in the past 5 years from: Roche and Pfizer Elizabeth Smyth declares personal consultancy fees and/or travel in the past 5 years from: Aptitude Health, Astra Zeneca, BMS, Celgene, Elsevier, Everest Clinical Research, First Word Group, Five Prime Therapeutics, Gritstone Oncology, Imedex, Merck, My Personal Therapeutics, Roche, Sai-Med, Servier, Zymeworks.

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De Paula, B., C Smyth, E. Personalising care in oesophageal cancer care with liquid biopsy. Br J Cancer 125, 1036–1038 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-021-01370-5

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