Colorectal Cancer
Tumor DNA is found in the serum of many recurrent colorectal cancer patients
Published in Cancer Weekly, July 22nd, 2003
According to a study from Japan, "We previously proved that p16 promoter methylation present in the tumors of colorectal cancer patients can be detected in the serum of those same patients using methylation-specific PCR (MSP).
"To seek the possibility that this technique could be applied to the monitoring of cancer recurrence, we examined the p16 methylation using MSP. We detected tumor DNA in the serum of 31 of 45 (69%) patients with recurrent colorectal cancer," wrote H. Nakayama and colleagues, Nagoya University, Graduate School of Medicine.
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2003-07-22)
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