Authors: Michael Fitzpatrick
Publish Date: 2000/04/19
Volume: 283, Issue: 15, Pages: 1948-1949
Abstract
Tokyo—Working with investigators in the thoracic surgery department at Keio University School of Medicine investigators here at the Central Research Laboratory of Hitachi Ltd and at the Hitachi Chemical Research Center in Irvine Calif have developed a method to detect the early spread of lung cancer using genetic analysis of cancer cells carried in the bloodstreamThe collaborating teams said they analyzed 121 specific genes of 10000 known to be expressed in lung cancer in biopsied tissue from patients with the disease In experiments using just six of the 121 genes they have detected early metastasis in tissue from patients having various stages of the disease said Masato Mitsuhashi MD PhD who heads the team working in Irvine
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