In this study, researchers aimed to determine whether ctDNA is detectable in other bodily fluids besides blood, and to characterize any ctDNA they were able to detect.
Research, headed by teams at Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin, has uncovered how lipid-rich fluid in the abdomen, known as ascites, plays a central role in weakening the body’s ...
A total of 70 consecutive patients were enrolled and divided into three groups. Group I consisted of 30 patients with various types of liver cirrhosis (mean age 65 ± 16 years, range 33-70 years; 15 ...
This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text component.
Only three of eight patients (38%) with cirrhosis but without ascites (group Ia) showed elevated serum values of CA 125. However, 21 of 22 patients (95%) with cirrhotic ascites (groups Ib and Ic) had ...