title: Meeting report - First international symposium on circulating nucleic acids in plasma/serum - Implications in cancer diagnostics, prognosis or follow up and in prenatal diagnosis - Menthon France, August 18-20, 1999.
abstract: The sessions were dedicated to the following topics: Detection of ras-gene mutations, Detection of other mutated oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes, Alterations in microsatellite sequences (LOH and instability), Status of gene-methylation of free circulating DNA, Detection of circulating tumor cells and RT-PCR, Detection of fetal DNA in maternal plasma and Technical aspects.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinikum Charite, Medizinische Klinik II, Onkologie und Hämatologie, Schumannstr. 20-21, D-10117 Berlin, Germany. michael. fleischhacker@charite.de
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fleischhacker
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D011905:Genes, ras; D006801:Humans; D009154:Mutation; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics; D009696:Nucleic Acids / Q000097:blood*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / Q000175:diagnosis; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D011379:Prognosis
chemical_list: D009696:Nucleic Acids