Patent ID: 7858304
Filing Date: 2010-12-28
Classification: C12N,C12Q,G01N

Abstract:
1. A method for predicting the likelihood of long-term survival without the recurrence of breast cancer comprising: assaying a level of a RNA transcript of STK15 in a tissue sample obtained from a primary ductal or lobular breast tumor of a human patient; normalizing said level against a level of at least one reference RNA transcript in said tissue sample to provide a normalized STK15 RNA level; and predicting the likelihood of long-term survival of said patient without the recurrence of breast cancer by comparing said normalized STK15 RNA level to gene expression data obtained from reference samples derived from patients with breast cancer, wherein increased normalized STK15 RNA level is negatively correlated with increased likelihood of long-term survival without breast cancer recurrence in said patients with breast cancer.