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Chapters

Liquid biopsies in pediatric solid tumors

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Chapter 1

Introduction and outline of this thesis

Part I Minimal residual disease in neuroblastoma

Chapter 2

Sensitive liquid biopsy monitoring correlates with outcome in the prospective international GPOH-DCOG high-risk neuroblastoma RT-qPCR validation study abstract

Chapter 3

Detection of Minimal Residual Disease in Peripheral Blood Samples of High-Risk Neuroblastoma Patients Correlates with Outcome: Final Results of International GPOH-DCOG Prospective Validation Study

Chapter 4

Mesenchymal neuroblastoma cells are undetected by current mRNA marker panels: the development of a specific neuroblastoma mesenchymal MRD panel abstract

Chapter 5

Specific and sensitive detection of neuroblastoma mRNA markers by multiplex RT-qPCR

Chapter 6

The Metastatic Bone Marrow Niche in Neuroblastoma: Altered Phenotype and Function of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells abstract


Part II Cell free DNA in pediatric solid tumors

Chapter 7

Hypermethylated RASSF1A as circulating tumor DNA marker for disease monitoring in neuroblastoma abstract


Chapter 8

Novel circulating hypermethylated RASSF1A ddPCR for liquid biopsies in patients with pediatric solid tumors abstract


Chapter 9

Cell-free DNA as a diagnostic and prognostic biomarker in pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma abstract


Chapter 10

Combining hypermethylated RASSF1A detection using droplet digital PCR with miR-371a-3p testing: an improved and highly sensitive panel of liquid biopsy biomarkers for testicular germ cell tumor patients abstract


Chapter 11

Targeted Locus Amplification to develop robust patient-specific assays for liquid biopsies in pediatric solid tumors abstract

Chapter 12

General discussion