posted on 2023-04-04, 01:24authored byMary Jo Fackler, Suzana Tulac, Neesha Venkatesan, Adam J. Aslam, Timothy N. de Guzman, Claudia Mercado-Rodriguez, Leslie M. Cope, Bradley M. Downs, Abdul Hussain Vali, Wanjun Ding, Jennifer Lehman, Rita Denbow, Jeffrey Reynolds, Morgan E. Buckley, Kala Visvanathan, Christopher B. Umbricht, Antonio C. Wolff, Vered Stearns, Michael Bates, Edwin W. Lai, Saraswati Sukumar
Figure shows the perfomance of LBx-BCM in the training set samples. A histogram shows cumulative methylation for each sample, and a box plot shows significnt difference of methylation in serum of metastatic breast cancer patients compared to normal individuals (Mann Whitney p= 0.002)
Funding
U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
Cepheid (Cepheid Inc)
Avon Foundation for Women (AFW)
Susan G. Komen (SGK)
History
ARTICLE ABSTRACT
We technically validated an automated, cartridge-based, liquid biopsy prototype assay, to quantitatively measure breast cancer methylation in serum or plasma of patients with MBC, that demonstrated high sensitivity and specificity.