Method for diagnosis of intestinal-type gastric tumors
CA 2492355 A1 · Owner: Furukawa, Yoichi · Inventors: Furukawa, Yoichi; Nakamura, Yusuke
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Objective methods for detecting and diagnosing intestinal-type gastric cancers are described herein. Also described is method for predicting the presence or absence of lymph node metastasis (i.e. identifying the metastatic phenotype). In one embodiment, the diagnostic method involves the scoring of gene expression profiles that discriminate between lymph node positive tumors and lymph node negative tumors. The predictive score calculated acts as diagnostic indicator that can objectively indicate whether a sample tissue has the metastatic phenotype. The present invention further provides methods of diagnosing intestinal-type gastric cancer in a subject methods of screening , for …
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