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`Personalis MRD Assays to Support UK's TRACERx ctDNA Monitoring Study | Precision Medicine Online
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`Personalis MRD Assays to Support UK's
`TRACERx ctDNA Monitoring Study
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`Apr 05, 2023 | staff reporter
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`NEW YORK – Cancer Research UK, University College London, and the Francis Crick Institute said
`Wednesday that they have adopted Personalis' NeXT Personal, a personalized residual disease detection
`platform, in their TRACERx study.
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`Already ongoing for several years, TRACERx has been a notable venue for discovery and validation of
`post-surgery liquid biopsy cancer monitoring techniques, tracking early-stage non-small cell lung cancer
`patients after curative-intent surgery.
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`Moving forward, the UK institutions said they will be using Personalis' assay platform as they begin taking
`"practical steps to make precision medicine for lung cancer patients a reality."
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`Investigators will create personalized assays, informed by upfront whole-genome sequencing of tumor
`tissue, to identify and track minimal residual disease, identify relapse earlier than possible with current
`imaging technologies, and study disease evolution.
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`"Thanks to the TRACERx study, we've already seen the importance of ctDNA in predicting cancer
`recurrence in an initial cohort of patients," the study's principal investigator Charles Swanton, who is
`affiliated with all three of the institutions, said in a statement. "Personalis' highly sensitive [test] will allow us
`to achieve a rich understanding of the complex tumor ecosystem, including by tracking clinically relevant
`ctDNA variants at recurrence, and ultimately allowing us to make more informed decisions about patient
`care," he added.
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`Molecular Diagnostics
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`Precision Oncology
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`Liquid Biopsy
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`Europe
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`North America
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`CRUK
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`Francis Crick Institute
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`Personalis
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`non-small cell lung cancer
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`circulating tumor DNA
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`Minimal Residual Disease (MRD) Testing
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