Patent ID: 8206899

Claim:
A method of diagnosing prostate cancer in a mammal, said method comprising obtaining a biological sample from said mammal, assessing the level of polynucleotide encoding PCADM-1 in said biological sample, and comparing the level of polynucleotide encoding PCADM-1 in said biological sample with the level of polynucleotide encoding PCADM-1 in a biological sample obtained from a like mammal not afflicted with prostate cancer, wherein a higher level of polynucleotide encoding PCADM-1 in said biological sample from said mammal compared with the level of polynucleotide encoding PCADM-1 in said biological sample from said like mammal is an indication that said mammal is afflicted with prostate cancer, thereby diagnosing prostate cancer in said mammal, wherein the sequence of the polynucleotide encoding PCADM-1 comprises the polynucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1.