Article
A preliminary report: frequency of A-T heterozygotes among prostate cancer patients with severe late responses to radiation therapy.
The cancer journal from Scientific American - 1 Jan 2000
Hall E J, Schiff P B, Hanks G E, Brenner D J, Russo J, Chen J, Sawant S G, Pandita T K
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: To investigate whether a significant proportion of prostate cancer patients who have late sequelae after high-dose external-beam conformal radiation therapy are radio-sensitive because they are carriers of ataxia-telangiectasia, that is, are heterozygous for mutations in the ATM gene. PA...
Topics
- Ataxia Telangiectasia
- DNA Primers
- Exons
- Genetic Carrier Screening
- Humans
- Male
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Prostatic Neoplasms
- Radiation Injuries
