Article
Clinical usefulness of K-RAS mutation detection in colorectal cancer and in surgical margins of the colon.
Roczniki Akademii Medycznej w Bialymstoku (1995) - 1 Jan 2004
Okulczyk B, Kovalchuk O, Piotrowski Z, Myśliwiec P, Chyczewski L
Abstract excerpt
The incidence of K-RAS gene mutations in tumour and surgical margins was investigated in 63 patients with adenocarcinomas of varied clinical stage and histological grade. Point mutations of codon 12 K-RAS gene were detected, using the PCR-RFPL technique in cancer tissue in 23 patients (36.5%) and...
Topics
- Colon
- Colonic Neoplasms
- Colorectal Neoplasms
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Neoplasm
- Genes, ras
- Humans
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
