Ras mutations are one of the earliest events in development of pancreatic cancer. We investigated the validity of the detection of ras-mutation in blood from patients with cancer, even with regard to a possible use in clinical diagnostics. High error rates of the nested-PCR with mismatched primers and RFLP-analysis established so far required a modification of the PCR conditions. We reached a sensitivity of 1:104 up to 1:105 with the new method while minimizing the error rate. The detection of ras mutation succeded in 4,2 % of the blood samples and in 84% of the tissue slices; however the sequence analysis showed different results between the point mutations. Therefore there`s no senseful clinical use of this method and a critical view at the rates of mutation proof published so far seems to be demanded.
«Ras mutations are one of the earliest events in development of pancreatic cancer. We investigated the validity of the detection of ras-mutation in blood from patients with cancer, even with regard to a possible use in clinical diagnostics. High error rates of the nested-PCR with mismatched primers and RFLP-analysis established so far required a modification of the PCR conditions. We reached a sensitivity of 1:104 up to 1:105 with the new method while minimizing the error rate. The detection of r...
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