Patent ID: 11906536
Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
Field: nan (nan)
Classification: CPC nan | IPC C  G

Claim 0:
1. A method for detecting lung cancer in a human subject, comprising
measuring an expression level of hsa-miR-3162-5p in a blood, serum or plasma sample from the subject;
comparing the measured expression level of hsa-miR-3162-5p to a control expression level for a healthy subject;
detecting an increased level of hsa-miR-3162-5p in the sample from the subject as compared to the control expression level from the sample from the healthy subject;
wherein the increased level of hsa-miR-3162-5p indicates that the subject has lung cancer; and
wherein the method further comprises treating the subject for the lung cancer or performing a diagnostic procedure on the subject with the lung cancer:
wherein the treatment comprises surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy or a combination thereof; and
wherein the diagnostic procedure comprises chest X-ray examination or diagnostic imaging of the lung of the human subject.