Patent ID: 8241846

Claim:
A method for diagnosing a cancer or a predisposition to cancer in a first subject comprising: (a) determining a level and/or activity of BOC in a sample from said first subject; (b) comparing said level and/or activity to a corresponding reference level and/or activity; and (c) diagnosing said cancer or predisposition to cancer based on said comparison, wherein said cancer is a brain tumor, an ovary tumor, a breast tumor, a glioblastoma, a skin tumor, a meningioma, an astrocytoma, a liver tumor, a prostate carcinoma, a bladder tumor, a lung tumor, a lymph node lymphoma, a vascular endothelium hemangioma, a kidney carcinoma or a thyroid follicular adenoma; and wherein a higher level and/or activity of said BOC in said sample from said first subject as compared to said reference level and/or activity is indicative that said first subject has cancer or a predisposition to cancer.