RAS testing practices and RAS mutation prevalence among patients with metastatic colorectal cancer: Results from a Europe-wide survey of pathology centres

BMC Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Boleij, Annemarie ^a   Tack, Véronique ^b   Taylor, Aliki ^c   Kafatos, George ^c   Jenkins Anderson, Sophie ^d   Tembuyser, Lien ^b   Dequeker, Els ^b   van Krieken, J Han ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c AMGEN LTD   (United Kingdom)

^d Adelphi Research (Global)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

KRAS; Laboratory practices; Metastatic colorectal cancer; NRAS; Prevalence; RAS testing

Indexed keywords

RAS PROTEIN; CODON;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BELGIUM; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; DENMARK; DNA EXTRACTION; EXON; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOT SPOT CODON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ION AMPLISEQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTATIC COLORECTAL CANCER; ONCOGENE RAS; ONCOLOGIST; PREVALENCE; PYROSEQUENCING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; SWITZERLAND; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); TURNAROUND TIME; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY;

CODON; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EUROPE; EXONS; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; GENETIC TESTING; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION;

EID: 84992468391     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-016-2810-3     Document Type: Article

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