RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Clinical perspective and translational oncology of liquid biopsy A1 Fernández Lázaro, Diego A1 García Hernández, Juan Luis A1 Caballero García, Alberto A1 Caballero del Castillo, Aurora A1 Villaverde Hueso, María A1 Cruz Hernández, Juan Jesús K1 Cancer research K1 Cancer - Early detection K1 Cancer - Molecular aspects K1 Liquid Biopsy K1 General practice (Medicine) K1 Translational Medical Research K1 3207.13 Oncología AB The term liquid biopsy (LB) refers to the study of circulating tumor cells, circulating tumors nucleic acids free of cells or contained in exosomes, and information about platelets associated with tumors. LB can be performed in different biofluids and allows the limitations of tissue biopsy to be overcome offering possibilities of tumor identification reflecting in real time tumor heterogeneity. In addition, LB allows screening and early detection of cancer, real-time monitoring of therapy, stratification and therapeutic intervention, a therapeutic target and resistance mechanism, and a risk of metastatic relapse. Currently, LB has been shown to be effective for its application in different types of tumors including lung, colorectal, prostate, melanoma, breast and pancreatic cancer, by the determination and identification of biomarkers that with a high probability have the potential to change the way in which medical oncology could predict the course of the disease. These biomarkers make it possible to capture the heterogeneity of the cancer, monitor its clonal evolution, indicate new treatments or retreatments and evaluate the responses to different evolutionary and/or therapeutic pressures in the cancer disease. PB MDPI SN 2075-4418 YR 2020 FD 2020 LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/57763 UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/57763 LA eng NO Diagnostics, 2020, Vol. 10, Nº. 7, 443 NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 24-nov-2024