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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2004
Meera Srivastava, Potomac, MD (US);
Harvey B. Pollard, Potomac, MD (US);
Meera Srivastava, Potomac, MD (US);
Harvey B. Pollard, Potomac, MD (US);
Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Rockville, MD (US);
Abstract
This invention provides methods, including a method of assessing the prognosis of a breast cancer patient, comprising assaying for loss of heterozygosity at the 10q21 region of the genome of the patient, a method of identifying a probability that a patient with breast cancer has metastasized breast cancer, a method of determining a survival probability of a patient with breast cancer, and a method of identifying a probability that a patient with prostate cancer has a severe form of prostate cancer. This invention also provides assay complexes, including assay complexes which comprise at least one prostate tissue sample or tissue sample extract, an antibody that specifically binds ANX7, and a label, or which comprise at least one breast tissue sample or tissue sample extract, an antibody that specifically binds ANX7, and a label.