“…In spite of numerous validated studies about the role of RASSF1 and SLC5A8 promoter methylation in the molecular pathogenesis of tumor, there are only few studies investigating their methylation status in circulating free DNA (Stephen et al, 2015;Xing, 2013). RASSF1 (Ras association domain family member 1) is a proteincoding gene associated with the pathogenesis of different types of cancers (Amato et al, 2016;Niu, Yang, Yang, & Huang, 2017;Pabalan et al, 2017;Tommasi et al, 2005;Vos, Ellis, Bell, Birrer, & Clark, 2000;Xu, Zhan, & Chen, 2016 F I G U R E 5 Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves for DNA methylation markers (as ranked by p-value) using the current collection of circulating plasma circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) and matching tumor samples Mohammadi-asl et al, 2011;Shao et al, 2017;Wen, Wang, & Zhong, 2018). An investigation on the methylation status of 14 different tumor suppressor genes in plasma cell-free DNA highlighted the role of RASSF1 hypermethylation as a biomarker for six types of cancers (lung, colon, pancreas, breast, stomach, prostate;Saeki et al, 2017).…”