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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2016
Applicant:
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jonathan Berek, Stanford, CA (US);
Wendy Fantl, San Francisco, CA (US);
Veronica Gonzalez, Stanford, CA (US);
Garry P. Nolan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nikolay Samusik, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Standord, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/574 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 33/57449 (2013.01); G01N 2333/4703 (2013.01); G01N 2800/52 (2013.01); G01N 2800/54 (2013.01);
Abstract
Cellular markers indicating a poor prognosis for ovarian cancer patients are disclosed. In particular, the invention relates to methods utilizing the frequency of a subset of cells in ovarian tumor tissue expressing vimentin, cMyc, or HE4, or any combination thereof, to predict an ovarian cancer patient will relapse.