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Detection of tumor DNA in serum of colorectal cancer patients.
Japanese journal of cancer research : Gann - 1 Nov 2002
Ito Seiji, Hibi Kenji, Nakayama Hiroshi, Kodera Yasuhiro, Ito Katsuki, Akiyama Seiji, Nakao Akimasa
Abstract excerpt
We previously found p16 promoter methylation in DNA in the sera of 13 colorectal cancer patients out of 44 (30%) whose tumor DNA exhibited the methylation, using methylation-specific PCR (MSP). To examine whether the cancer detection rate could be improved by using a different tumor marker, we ex...
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