Patent ID: 9382587
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: C12Q,G01N

Claim Text:
1. A method for diagnosing and treating breast cancer, comprising: (a) obtaining a blood sample from a subject and isolating a serum from the blood sample; (b) contacting the serum with an anti-thioredoxin 1 antibody; (c) measuring a concentration of thioredoxin 1 in the serum reacted with the anti-thioredoxin 1 antibody; (d) diagnosing the subject with stage I-III breast cancer based on the concentration of the thioredoxin 1 obtained from step (c), wherein the concentration of thioredoxin 1 is from 40.10±6.551 ng/mL to 47.53±7.695 ng/mL; and (e) treating the patient with an adjuvant therapy.