One of the highly significant abstracts presented at the recent American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2019 in Chicago (May 31-June 4) described impressive preliminary data on the liquid biopsy detection of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), which is one of the most prevalent malignancies in Southeast Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Arctic. Using a […]

When a cancer cell dies, its DNA is released into the blood. Once released this DNA is referred to as cell-free DNA (cfDNA). The cfDNA retains a DNA methylation pattern that corresponds to the cell it originated from. When a “normal” cell transforms into a cancer cell significant gene expression changes occur, and these alterations […]