beach sunrise wrote:... Sognatera still showing neg. Will redo on the 15th to make sure. I asked about the test not being good at detecting cancer with lung mets maybe. Answer was they will get back with me. Haven't got a response yet.
CONCLUSION
Patients with lung-only and peritoneum-only metastatic disease have significantly lower levels of ctDNA, suggesting decreased clinical sensitivity for subclonal variants.
From a clinical standpoint, ctDNA detection can vary by stage, metastatic burden, and the site of metastases.2-5 Kagawa et al6 observed that CRC patients with liver metastases were associated with increased ctDNA detection rates compared with the patients with lung and peritoneal metastases.
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