Clinical usefulness of K-ras gene mutation detection and cytology in pancreatic juice in the diagnosis and screening of pancreatic cancer

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BACKGROUND: The significance of K-ras codon 12 mutation in pancreatic juice is still unclear. Although considerable controversy surrounds this question, the diagnostic utility of K-ras in patients with clinical suspicion of pancreatic cancer (PC) and in PC-risk patients remains unknown. OBJECTIVE: To study prospectively the utility of the K-ras gene mutation and cytology in the diagnosis and screening of PC, and...

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