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RAS testing in metastatic colorectal cancer: excellent reproducibility amongst 17 Dutch pathology centers.
Oncotarget - 20 Jun 2015
Boleij Annemarie, Tops Bastiaan B J, Rombout Paul D M, Dequeker Elizabeth M, Ligtenberg Marjolijn J L, van Krieken J Han
Abstract excerpt
In 2013 the European Medicine Agency (EMA) restricted the indication for anti-EGFR targeted therapy to metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) with a wild-type RAS gene, increasing the need for reliable RAS mutation testing. We evaluated the completeness and reproducibility of RAS-testing in the Netherlands. From 17 laboratories, tumor DNA of the first 10 CRC cases tested in 2014 in routine clinical practice was...
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