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Circulating nucleic acids (CNAs) and cancer--a survey.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Jan 2007
Fleischhacker M, Schmidt B
Abstract excerpt
It has been known for decades that it is possible to detect small amounts of extracellular nucleic acids in plasma and serum of healthy and diseased human beings. The unequivocal proof that part of these circulating nucleic acids (CNAs) is of tumor origin, initiated a surge of studies which confirmed and extended the original observations. In the past few years many experiments showed that tumor-associated...
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