Consensus statement on ctDNA minimal residual disease (MRD) testing in early-stage NSCLC – A Delphi study by the Asian Thoracic Oncology Research Group (ATORG)
These consensus recommendations provide a pragmatic framework to guide the responsible integration of MRD testing into clinical research and practice.
Authors
- Yuji Uehara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8047-8730)
- Lucksamon Thamlikitkul (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4846-5678)
- Thanyanan Reungwetwattana (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3147-7640)
- Pei Jye Voon
- Beung-Chul Ahn
- Aaron C. Tan
- James Chih-Hsin Yang
- Myung-Ju Ahn
- Bin-Chi Liao
- Yasushi Yatabe
- Yasushi Goto
- Yi-Long Wu
- Hidetoshi Hayashi
- Meimei Zheng
- Tony Mok
- Anders Skanderup
- Sehhoon Park
- Dong-Wan Kim
- Nick Pavlakis
- David J Lee
- Ross A. Soo
- Chee Khoon Lee
- Thomas John
- Daniel S.W. Tan
- Jia-Tao Zhang
- Molly Li
- Hidehito Horinouchi
Institutions
- Agency for Science, Technology and Research (SG)
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- Siriraj Hospital (TH)
- National Taiwan University (TW)
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Mahidol University (TH)
- Royal North Shore Hospital (AU)
- Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (AU)
- Sarawak General Hospital (MY)
- Samsung Medical Center (KR)
- Seoul National University Hospital (KR)
- National Cancer Centre Japan (JP)
- National Cancer Center (US)
- National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (SG)
- National Cancer Centre Singapore (SG)
- Ramathibodi Hospital (TH)
- National Cancer Center Hospital East (JP)
- Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences (CN)
- Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (CN)
- National Health and Medical Research Council (AU)
- Southern Medical University (CN)
- Genome Institute of Singapore (SG)
- Sunway University (MY)
- Kindai University (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Thoracic Oncology
- Published
- 2026-03-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtho.2026.103696
- Primary Topic
- Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00