Patent Document ID: 20080064055
Application ID: 11891213
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for determining whether a patient having cancer is predicted to have short term or long term survival when treated with a therapeutic regimen comprising: a) determining the level of expression of a predictive marker or a plurality of markers in a patient sample; b) comparing the level of expression of the predictive marker or plurality of markers to a control expression level to determine whether the level of expression of the predictive marker or markers is an informative expression level; and c) determining if the patient is predicted to be a short term or long term survivor, wherein the predictive marker or plurality of markers is selected from the predictive markers identified in Table 1 and/or Table 2; and wherein an informative expression level is indicative that the patient is predicted to be either a short term or long term survivor when treated with a therapeutic regimen.