[Mutations in the P53 tumor suppressor gene and the K-RAS oncogene have frequently been found in sputum and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) samples of lung cancer patients, and also in samples from patients prior to presenting clinical symptoms of lung cancer, suggesting they may provide useful biomarkers for early lung cancer diagnosis.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE