BACKGROUND
Detection of melanoma cells in circulation may be important in assessing tumor progression. The objective of this study was to develop a specific, reliable multimarker quantitative real-time reverse transcription-PCR (qRT) assay for detecting melanoma cells in patients' blood.
METHODS
We developed qRT assays for the mRNA of four melanoma-associated markers: MART-1, GalNAc-T, PAX-3,...
