Institute of Cancer Research d/b/a The Research Institute of Fox Chase Cancer Center ("Fox Chase
发明人:
Rugang Zhang,Benjamin Bitler
申请号:
US13963031
公开号:
US20130324479A1
申请日:
2013.08.09
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2013
代理人:
摘要:
Systems, methods, and computer readable media for diagnosing or characterizing epithelial cancer or its stages based on the level of expression of the Wnt5a gene or protein are provided. The level of nucleic acids encoding Wnt5a or the level of Wnt5a protein is measured in a tissue sample, and the level is compared with reference values. Methods for inducing senescence of an epithelial cancer cell are also provided.