“…The current prospective studies with ctDNA have a small number of patients and do not reflect the true value of ctDNA in MRD monitoring [ 40 ]. Our meta-analyses included 23 studies with 3568 patients [ 9 , 18 , 20 , 21 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 44 , 45 ]. This speaks to the rapidly expanding number of studies on the topic.…”