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Detection of K-ras gene mutation in fecal samples from elderly large intestinal cancer patients and its diagnostic significance.

World J Gastroenterol

March 2004

Department of Geriatric Gastroenterology, South Building of General Hospital of the Chinese PLA, Beijing, China.

Aim: To study the diagnostic significance of K-ras gene mutations in fecal samples from elderly patients with large intestinal cancer.

Methods: DNA was extracted in the fecal and tissue samples from 23 large intestinal cancer patients, 20 colonic adenomatoid polypus patients and 20 healthy subjects. The K-ras gene mutations at the first and second bases of codon 12 were detected by the allele specific mismatch method.

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