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A High-Sensitivity Circulating Nucleic Acid Sequencing Assay for Assessing Treatment Response to Alectinib in a Pediatric Patient With ALK-Rearranged Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

Sensitive blood testing tracked drug response in a child with lung cancer, suggesting liquid biopsies could work in rare pediatric cases.

Letter describing a single pediatric case where high-sensitivity circulating nucleic acid sequencing tracked alectinib treatment response in ALK-rearranged NSCLC; informative but very limited evidence base. Useful as hypothesis-generating signal for pediatric liquid biopsy applications.

What the study was

Study design
Single case report/letter
Population
Pediatric patient with ALK-rearranged NSCLC
Sample size
1
Category
Diagnostics
Maturity
Exploratory
Journal
Pediatric Blood & Cancer

Why it surfaced

Letter format, single case report; capped at 4 for case report rule; informative signal only.

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