Thoracic Medical Oncology, Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Cancer. 2020 Sep 15;126(18):4089-4091. doi: 10.1002/cncr.32983. Epub 2020 May 30.
This commentary proposes a shift in the current diagnostic workflow for patients with metastatic cancer to incorporate the use of liquid biopsy. This proposal, born in the time of a severe crisis for the health care system, might also be applied when the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) outbreak ends and thereby reduce the turnaround time for results from molecular testing for patients with cancer and increase the number of patients potentially benefiting from highly effective targeted therapies.
本评论建议改变当前转移性癌症患者的诊断工作流程,纳入液体活检的应用。在医疗保健系统面临严重危机之际提出的这一建议,也可在严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒 2(SARS-CoV-2)疫情结束时应用,从而缩短癌症患者分子检测结果的周转时间,并增加更多可能受益于高效靶向治疗的患者数量。