Meeting report - First international symposium on circulating nucleic acids in plasma/serum - Implications in cancer diagnostics, prognosis or follow up and in prenatal diagnosis - Menthon France, August 18-20, 1999

The sessions were dedicated to the following topics: Detection of ras-gene mutations, Detection of other mutated oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes, Alterations in microsatellite sequences (LOH and instability), Status of gene-methylation of free circulating DNA, Detection of circulating tumor cells and RT-PCR, Detection of fetal DNA in maternal plasma and Technical aspects.