Method for determining a lung cancer treatment and method for determining the effectiveness of an agent for treatment of lung cancer

摘要

The present invention provides a method of determining a lung cancer treatment, the method comprising: measuring an amount of KL-6 in a sample of body fluid from a subject, and determining the treatment based on the amount of KL-6 measured, and a method of determining the effectiveness of an agent for treatment of lung cancer on a subject, the method comprising: measuring an amount of KL-6 in a sample of body fluid from the subject, determining the effectiveness of an EGFR inhibitor on the subject should the EGFR inhibitor be administered as the agent for treatment of lung cancer, based on the amount of KL-6 measured.