Patent ID: 7175981

Claim:
A method of diagnosing breast cancer comprising the steps of: a) obtaining a tissue sample from a subject; b) subjecting the sample to a detection method for measuring levels of fatty acid binding proteins (FABPs), said FABPs comprising Liver-FABP, Intestine-FABP, Adipose-FABP, Epidermal-FABP, and Heart/Muscle FABP; c) detecting an amount of said FABP present in said sample of said subject; d) comparing the amounts of expression of FABP in the sample to the amounts of expression of FABP in a non-cancerous control; and e) diagnosing a presence of breast cancer by observing if the amounts of expression of the FABP in the sample show that Liver-FABP is up, Intestine-FABP is up, Adipose-FABP is down, Epidermal-FABP is down, and Heart/Muscle-FABP is down.