摘要 |
<p>The present invention relates to prognostic methods which are useful in medicine, particularly cancer chemotherapy. The object of the invention to provide a method for assessingexpression levels in fixed or fixed and paraffin embedded tissues and determine a platinum-based chemotherapy by examination of the amount ofmRNA in a patient's tumor cells and comparing it to a predetermined threshold expression level. More specifically, the invention provides to oligonucleotide primer pair ERCC1 and methods comprising their use for detecting levels ofmRNA.</p> |