MONTEREY, Calif. — The aqueous humor is important for diagnosis, prognosis and objective monitoring of treatment response in cases of retinoblastoma, Jesse L. Berry, MD, told colleagues here.
Further, it is an eye-specific liquid biopsy.
“The aqueous is powerful. It can tell you things that you can’t see,” Berry said at the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium.
It is well established that tumor DNA from the retinoblastoma that is forming in the back of the eye comes forward into the aqueous humor and can be detected there via liquid biopsy, Berry said.
“Retinoblastoma