Patent ID: 7856318

Claim:
A method for predicting a survival rate of a patient with non-small cell lung cancer, said method comprising the steps of: (a) isolating a cancer tissue section or a plurality of tissue sections from said patient; (b) extracting mRNAs from said tissue section or plurality of tissue sections; (c) transforming said mRNAs from step (b) into cDNAs, wherein said cDNAs are labeled; (d) determining the expression strengths of all sequences from Group A, consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 4, SEQ ID NO: 5, SEQ ID NO: 6, SEQ ID NO: 8, SEQ ID NO: 9, SEQ ID NO: 10), SEQ ID NO: 11, SEQ ID NO: 12, SEQ ID NO: 13, SEQ ID NO: 14, SEQ ID NO: 15, SEQ ID NO: 16, SEQ ID NO: 17, SEQ ID NO: 18, SEQ ID NO: 19, SEQ ID NO: 20, SEQ ID NO: 21, SEQ ID NO: 22, SEQ ID NO: 24, and SEQ ID NO: 25 and Group B consisting of SEQ ID NO: 3, SEQ ID NO: 7, and SEQ ID NO: 23 and; (d) predicting a favorable prognosis when the expression of the sequences of Group A are collectively increased while the expression of the sequences of Group B are collectively decreased, or predicting a fatal prognosis when the expressions of the sequences of Group A are collectively decreased while the expressions of the sequences of Group B are collectively increased.