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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2014
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Barbara M. Bryant, Cambridge, MA (US);
Andrew I. Damokosh, West Hartford, CT (US);
George J. Mulligan, Lexington, MA (US);
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to the identification of predictive markers that can be used to determine whether patients with cancer are clinically responsive or non-responsive to a therapeutic regimen prior to treatment. In particular, the present invention is directed to the use of certain individual and/or combinations of predictive markers, wherein the expression of the predictive markers correlates with responsiveness or non-responsiveness to a therapeutic regimen. Thus, by examining the expression levels of individual predictive markers and/or predictive markers comprising a marker set, it is possible to determine whether a therapeutic agent, or combination of agents, will be most likely to reduce the growth rate of tumors in a clinical setting.