Article
Serum DNA and urine DNA alterations of urinary transitional cell bladder carcinoma detected by fluorescent microsatellite analysis
1 Jan 2001
Abstract excerpt
There are no reliable serologic tumor markers for transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the urinary bladder and noninvasive urine investigations are inadequate. We used fluorescent microsatellite analysis (MSA) to detect serum DNA and urine-sediment DNA alterations in patients with bladder cancer and prospectively collected fresh tumor, peripheral blood, serum and spontaneous urine specimens from 39 consecutive...