METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIATING CONTRACTION OF ESOPHAGEAL BASALOID CARCINOMA

摘要

A method for readily and accurately differentiating an esophageal cancer patient's tumor between basaloid squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus or another esophageal cancer is developed and provided. A method is provided for assisting differentiating contraction of basaloid squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus, including measuring the expression levels of markers for basaloid squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus in samples collected from a test subject and a healthy subject or a group of healthy subjects and determining whether the test subject is highly likely to be affected with basaloid squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus based on the obtained measurement values.