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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2007
Applicants:
Hyerim Lee, Princeton, NJ (US);
Peter Shaw, Yardley, PA (US);
Edwin A. Clark, Pennington, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Princeton, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/68 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Biomarkers that are useful for identifying a mammal that will respond therapeutically or is responding therapeutically to a method of treating cancer that comprises administering a microtubule-stabilizing agent. In one aspect, the cancer is breast cancer, and the microtubule-stabilizing agent is an epothilone or analog or derivative thereof, or ixabepilone.