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B.C. research: New blood test could 'transform' cancer treatment | CTV News https://bc.ctvnews.ca/new-blood-test-could-transform-cancer-treatment-b-c-research-1.6006877 https://bc.ctvnews.ca/mobile/new-blood-test-could-transform-cancer-treatment-b-c-research-1.6006877?cache=yesclipId10406200text/html;charset=utf-80404/7.263352 “researchers at #BCCancer and the Vancouver #Prostate Centre said they've developed a new blood test that provides "unprecedented" insight into a patient's cancer make-up.

"analyzes the DNA that #metastatic #cancers shed into the bloodstream, known as circulating tumour DNA or #ctDNA,"

helps to reveal characteristics that are unique to each patient's cancer, “

A great read on #DrugResistance in #cancer, in Nature, by Vasan, Baselga, and Hyman. Sure, 2019 is four years ago, so there will be updates, e.g. on mapping #CancerDependency or the role of #ctDNA in early detection or monitoring. But the framework for understanding drug resistance is here.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1730-1

Although it doesn't say it, I think it may be #OpenAccess since I'm not logged in to my institution right now but can reach full text anyway.

#tumour #tumor

Please RT: #WeAreHiring - Exciting 2yr #postdoc on
@AlCRIproject
funded by
@hea_irl
on #liquidbiopsies (#CTCs #EV #ctDNA), #vibrationalspectroscopy (#Raman #FTIR) and #machinelearning for #cancer in collaboration with
@CluB_Cancer1
Deadline 24 July! https://euraxess.ie/jobs/122141

#introductions

Hi, I'm a Senior Bioinformatician at SAGA Diagnostics working on #cancer diagnostics, #genomics, #ctDNA, and #liquidbiopsy. I did my PhD at Lund University working on large-scale #breastcancer #transcriptomics, and I’m still affiliated with LU working on cancer-related projects.

Before #bioinformatics I worked a lot on the #FreeBSD operating system. Nowadays I mostly contribute to #Bioconda (core team), #condaforge (R stack co-maintainer), and other bioinf / #datasci projects.