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    Zviran, Asaf; Schulman, Rafael C; Shah, Minita; Hill, Steven T K; Deochand, Sunil; Khamnei, Cole C; Maloney, Dillon; Patel, Kristofer; Liao, Will; Widman, Adam J; Wong, Phillip; Callahan, Margaret K; Ha, Gavin; Reed, Sarah; Rotem, Denisse; Frederick, Dennie; Sharova, Tatyana; Miao, Benchun; Kim, Tommy; Gydush, Greg; Rhoades, Justin; Huang, Kevin Y; Omans, Nathaniel D; Bolan, Patrick O; Lipsky, Andrew H; Ang, Chelston; Malbari, Murtaza; Spinelli, Catherine F; Kazancioglu, Selena; Runnels, Alexi M; Fennessey, Samantha; Stolte, Christian; Gaiti, Federico; Inghirami, Giorgio G; Adalsteinsson, Viktor; Houck-Loomis, Brian; Ishii, Jennifer; Wolchok, Jedd D; Boland, Genevieve; Robine, Nicolas; Altorki, Nasser K; Landau, Dan A

    Nature medicine, 07/2020, Letnik: 26, Številka: 7
    Journal Article

    In many areas of oncology, we lack sensitive tools to track low-burden disease. Although cell-free DNA (cfDNA) shows promise in detecting cancer mutations, we found that the combination of low tumor fraction (TF) and limited number of DNA fragments restricts low-disease-burden monitoring through the prevailing deep targeted sequencing paradigm. We reasoned that breadth may supplant depth of sequencing to overcome the barrier of cfDNA abundance. Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of cfDNA allowed ultra-sensitive detection, capitalizing on the cumulative signal of thousands of somatic mutations observed in solid malignancies, with TF detection sensitivity as low as 10 . The WGS approach enabled dynamic tumor burden tracking and postoperative residual disease detection, associated with adverse outcome. Thus, we present an orthogonal framework for cfDNA cancer monitoring via genome-wide mutational integration, enabling ultra-sensitive detection, overcoming the limitation of cfDNA abundance and empowering treatment optimization in low-disease-burden oncology care.