composition and method for predicting the postoperative prognosis or metastatic potential of cancer patients

摘要

A method of predicting in vitro the postoperative prognosis or metastatic risk of a cancer patient which comprises measuring the expression level of at least one cancer metastasis-related gene marker in a biological sample originating in the patient or the transcription or translation product level thereof by using a probe corresponding to the marker, and then determining the postoperative prognosis or metastatic risk with the use of a difference in the relative level as discussed above between one group of patients showing a better postoperative prognosis or a lower metastatic risk and another group of patients showing a worse postoperative prognosis or a higher metastatic risk as an indication; and a composition for predicting the postoperative prognosis or metastatic risk which contains the probe as described above.