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Genetic diagnosis of lymph-node metastasis in colorectal cancer.
Lancet (London, England) - 20 May 1995
Hayashi N, Ito I, Yanagisawa A, Kato Y, Nakamori S, Imaoka S, Watanabe H, Ogawa M, Nakamura Y
Abstract excerpt
If a regional lymph node taken during surgery for colorectal cancer is found to be free of tumour on histological examination this is taken to be a good sign. However, conventional staining may not be sensitive enough. Mutant-allele-specific amplification (MASA) is a technique that can detect, at the level of an individual cell, micrometastases to lymph nodes that are histologically diagnosed as negative. To...
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