A prospective study of K-ras mutations in the plasma of pancreatic cancer patients

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 271-275

  Mulcahy, Hugh E ^a   Lyautey, Jacqueline ^b   Lederrey, Christine ^b   Chen, Xu Qi ^b   Anker, Philippe ^b   Alstead, Elspeth M ^a   Ballinger, Anne ^a   Farthing, Michael J G ^a   Stroun, Maurice ^b  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MALE; ONCOGENE K RAS; PANCREAS CANCER; PLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DNA, NEOPLASM; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031938490     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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