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. 2026 Mar 20;27(6):2847. doi: 10.3390/ijms27062847
AUC Area under the curve
AML Acute myeloid leukemia
CAPP-Seq Cancer Personalized Profiling by Deep Sequencing
CCGA Circulating Cell-free Genome Atlas
CfDNA Cell-free DNA
CHIP Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential
CtDNA Circulating tumor DNA
CT Computed tomography
CTCs Circulating tumor cells
DC Dendritic cell
DEASH Differential enrichment of allele-specific hybrids
E6/E7 HPV oncogenes E6 and E7
EMT Epithelial–mesenchymal transition
EpCAM Epithelial cell adhesion molecule
EVs Extracellular vesicles
HNSCC Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
HPV Human papillomavirus
HPV16 Human papillomavirus type 16
HR Hazard ratio
LA-HNSCC Locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
MRD Minimal residual disease
miRNA/miR MicroRNA
MRI Magnetic resonance imaging
NaME-PrO Nuclease-assisted minor-allele enrichment with probe overlap
NGS Next-generation sequencing
OSCC Oral squamous cell carcinoma
PET Positron emission tomography
PBMC Peripheral blood mononuclear cell
VAF Variant allele fraction