Method for diagnosing cancers
OwnerMaurice Stroun, Philippe Anker +1inventors
InventorsMaurice Stroun, Philippe Anker, Valeri Vasioukhin
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Abstract
A method of diagnosing and/or monitoring the development of cancer by analyzing the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in blood plasma, and particularly by detecting any gene alterations in cancer cell DNA, e.g. oncogene mutations or deletions, tumour suppressor gene mutations or deletions, or microsatellite alterations.
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A method for diagnosing and/or monitoring progression of cancers, comprising extracting deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) contained in a non-cellular blood fraction of a patient, purifying and amplifying the extracted DNA, and detecting microsatellite alterations in the amplified DNA, wherein the microsatellite alterations are indicative of the progression of a cancer in said patient.
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