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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2017
University of Central Lancashire, Lancashire, GB;
Matthew James Baker, Lytham St Annes, GB;
Peter Abel, Southport, GB;
Robert William Lea, Preston, GB;
University of Central Lancashire, Lancashire, GB;
Abstract
The present invention relates to methods of diagnosing and/or prognosing proliferative disorders, especially brain cancers (e.g. gliomas). In particular, the present invention provides a means to conveniently detect malignant tumors merely by assaying or analyzing blood (particularly blood serum). Cytokines and/or angiogenesis factors in blood serum have been found to be surprisingly powerful at indicating the presence of brain cancers in a subject. Moreover, spectroscopic analysis, especially ATR-FTIR analysis, of a blood sample has been demonstrated to be surprisingly effective at producing a signature that can be correlated with the presence, extent, severity, or aggressiveness of malignant tumors in a subject.