Impact of circulating tumor DNA early detection and serial monitoring in the management of stage I to III colorectal cancer
Author(s) -
Diana Bello Roufai,
FrançoisClément Bidard
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
annals of translational medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2305-5847
pISSN - 2305-5839
DOI - 10.21037/atm.2019.10.30
Subject(s) - colorectal cancer , stage (stratigraphy) , medicine , metastasis , distant metastasis , oncology , cancer , latency stage , cancer research , biology , paleontology
The temporal course and severity of metastasis to distant organs is a complex process depending on multiple features varying in different cancers and individuals. In patients previously treated for a localized tumor, the latency period before clinical evidence of metastatic relapse is made up of a sequence of events with unpredictable temporal kinetics (1).
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