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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:
Nov. 02, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Marsha A. Moses, Brookline, MA (US);
Michael R. Freeman, Boston, MA (US);
Dmitri Wiederschain, Brookline, MA (US);
Assignee:
Children's Medical Center Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/37 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/37 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to non-invasive methods for facilitating the diagnosis of a subject as having cancer. The described methods involve detecting the presence of a matrix metalloproteinase in urine samples obtained from a patient and correlating the presence or absence of the matrix metalloproteinase with the presence or absence of cancer. Methods for monitoring the prognosis of a patient by detection of matrix metalloproteinase are also provided.