2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Automated diagnosis of mammary cancer lymph node micrometastasis by real time PCR and FCM

Research Project

Project/Area Number	17591355
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	General surgery
Research Institution	Nippon medical school
Principal Investigator	TENJIN Toshihito Nippon medical school, 医学部, 准教授 (70217438)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	清水一雄日本医科大学, 医学部, 教授 (20133449) 赤須東樹日本医科大学, 医学部, 講師 (30297866) 田中久美日本医科大学, 医学部, 助教 (50343603)
Project Period (FY)	2005 – 2007
Keywords	breast cancer / Flow cytometry / Real-time PCR / フローサイトメトリー
Research Abstract	Lymph node micrometastasis of breast cancer is important problem. Therefore we review lymph node micrometastasis by Real-time quantitative PCR and flow cytometry. Lymph node micrometastasis is diagnosed in pathology, but it is difficult to image lymph node. Measuring the whole lymph node using Real-time PCR and FCM, we establish diagnostic procedure to prove extremely small carcinoma in high sensitivity.

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