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.
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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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