Plasma Circulating Cell-free DNA Integrity as a Promising Biomarker for Diagnosis and Surveillance in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma

The clinical significance of circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) integrity as diagnostic and surveillance biomarker in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was investigated and compared to that of alpha fetoprotein (AFP). Liver cancer patients had lower cfDNA integrity than those with benign diseases (P = 0...

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Autores principales: Huang, Ao, Zhang, Xin, Zhou, Shao-Lai, Cao, Ya, Huang, Xiao-Wu, Fan, Jia, Yang, Xin-Rong, Zhou, Jian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ivyspring International Publisher 2016
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Research Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5039362/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27698918
http://dx.doi.org/10.7150/jca.15618
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Sumario:The clinical significance of circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) integrity as diagnostic and surveillance biomarker in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was investigated and compared to that of alpha fetoprotein (AFP). Liver cancer patients had lower cfDNA integrity than those with benign diseases (P = 0.0167) and healthy individuals (P = 0.0025). Patients with HCC and non-HCC liver cancers (P = 0.7356), and patients with benign diseases and healthy individuals (P = 0.9138) had comparable cfDNA integrity respectively. cfDNA integrity increased after hepatectomy in cancer patients (P = 0.0003). The AUCs for detecting HCC by cfDNA integrity and AFP were 0.705 (P = 0.005) and 0.605 (P = 0.156), respectively. We found cfDNA integrity decreased in HCC patients and has the potential as promising biomarker for HCC diagnosis and treatment surveillance.

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