Towards Preanalytical Best Practices for Liquid Biopsy Studies: A BLOODPAC Landscape Analysis
The Blood Profiling Atlas in Cancer Consortium (BLOODPAC) has published a new white paper, “Towards Preanalytical Best Practices for Liquid Biopsy Studies: A BLOODPAC Landscape Analysis,” in the August issue of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics.
BLOODPAC previously recommended 11 preanalytical minimal technical data elements (MTDEs) for BLOODPAC-sponsored studies and data submitted to BLOODPAC Data Commons. The current landscape analysis evaluates the overlap of the BLOODPAC MTDEs with current best practices, guidelines, and standards documents related to clinical and research liquid biopsy applications. The authors found a high degree of concordance among these documents providing further support for the validity of these data elements.
