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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2019
Trustees of Boston University, Boston, MA (US);
Jerome S. Brody, Boston, MA (US);
Avrum Spira, Newton, MA (US);
Jeffrey S. Berman, Cambridge, MA (US);
Anthony W. O'Regan, Galway, IE;
Trustees of Boston University, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides methods for diagnosis and prognosis of lung cancer using expression analysis of one or more groups of genes, and a combination of expression analysis from a nasal epithelial cell sample. The methods of the invention provide far less invasive method with a superior detection accuracy for lung cancer when compared to any other currently available method for lung cancer diagnostic or prognosis. The invention also provides methods of diagnosis and prognosis of other lung diseases, such as lung cancer.