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A highly sensitive method for K-ras mutation detection is useful in diagnosis of gastrointestinal cancer.
International journal of cancer - 1 Jan 2000
Puig P, Urgell E, Capellá G, Sancho F J, Pujol J, Boadas J, Farré A, Lluís F, González-Sastre F, Mora J
Abstract excerpt
Detection of molecular features such as K-ras mutations has been used to evaluate potential tumour markers in a wide variety of clinical samples. Here we have applied a recently developed highly sensitive method for detection of K-ras codon 12 mutations to colorectal and pancreatic cancer diagnosis. We analysed 67 faecal samples from patients undergoing diagnostic colonoscopy under suspicion of colorectal cancer....
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