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R Jonas A Nilsson1, Leonora Balaj, Esther Hulleman, Sjoerd van Rijn, D Michiel Pegtel, Maudy Walraven, Anders Widmark, Winald R Gerritsen, Henk M Verheul, W Peter Vandertop, David P Noske, Johan Skog, Thomas Würdinger.
Abstract
Diagnostic platforms providing biomarkers that are highly predictive for diagnosing, monitoring, and stratifying cancer patients are key instruments in the development of personalized medicine. We demonstrate that tumor cells transfer (mutant) RNA into blood platelets in vitro and in vivo, and show that blood platelets isolated from glioma and prostate cancer patients contain the cancer-associated RNA biomarkers EGFRvIII and PCA3, respectively. In addition, gene-expression profiling revealed a distinct RNA signature in platelets from glioma patients compared with normal control subjects. Because platelets are easily accessible and isolated, they may form an attractive platform for the companion diagnostics of cancer.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21832279 PMCID: PMC7224637 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2011-03-344408
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Blood ISSN: 0006-4971 Impact factor: 22.113