Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Journal of Medicine, 13(368), p. 1199-1209, 2013
Elsevier, Breast Diseases, 4(24), p. 350-352, 2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.breastdis.2013.10.034
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The management of metastatic breast cancer requires monitoring of the tumor burden to determine the response to treatment, and improved biomarkers are needed. Biomarkers such as cancer antigen 15-3 (CA 15-3) and circulating tumor cells have been widely studied. However, circulating cell-free DNA carrying tumor-specific alterations (circulating tumor DNA) has not been extensively investigated or compared with other circulating biomarkers in breast cancer.