Liquid biopsy: an examination of platelet RNA obtained from head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients for predictive molecular tumor markers

• Main Authors: Lisa T. Huber (Author), Johann M. Kraus (Author), Jasmin Ezić (Author), Amin Wanli (Author), Marco Groth (Author), Simon Laban (Author), Thomas K. Hoffmann (Author), Barbara Wollenberg (Author), Hans A. Kestler (Author), Cornelia Brunner (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Open Exploration Publishing Inc., 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Aim: Recently, a tumor cell-platelet interaction was identified in different tumor entities, resulting in a transfer of tumor-derived RNA into platelets, named further "tumor-educated platelets (TEP)". The present pilot study aims to investigate whether such a tumor-platelet transfer of RN...