Neuro-Oncology • Vol 27 • No Supplement_3
JS09.6.A ADVANCING THE MINIMALLY INVASIVE CNS-TUMOR CLASSIFICATION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LIQUID BIOPSY APPROACHES USING NANOPORE SEQUENCING AND PANEL-BASED NGS OF CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CTDNA
October 2025 • Sebastian Schulz, Paul Kerbs, Florian Iser, Kirsten Göbel, Areeba Patel, V Kelbch, L Ehret-Maßholder, Eve Fouarge, Pauline Göller, Daniel Schrimpf, M…
Abstract BACKGROUND Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) liquid biopsy (LB) enables minimally invasive molecular profiling of central nervous system (CNS) tumors. We compared targeted next-generation sequencing (NGS) and whole-genome Oxford Nanopore sequencing (ONT) regarding diagnostic yield, turnaround time (TAT), and clinical utility. MATERIAL AND METHODS CSF cell-free DNA (cfDNA) from 60 patients with suspected CNS tumors was analyzed across two centers. In all cases, both NGS and ONT were performed on the same cfDNA ali…