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KRAS mutations in Slovene patients with colorectal cancer: frequency, distribution and correlation with the response to treatment.
International journal of oncology - 1 May 2010
Licar Alenka, Cerkovnik Petra, Ocvirk Janja, Novakovic Srdjan
Abstract excerpt
KRAS mutations are proved as a predictor of response to EGFR-targeted therapies for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. For identifying the wild-type KRAS (wt-KRAS) responder subset of patients who will benefit from novel agents our laboratory has introduced the TheraSreen K-RAS Mutation Kit(R) an allele-specific RT-PCR based assay. Our aim is to describe the validation procedure of this method in our...
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