Inventors:
Ira Leonard Goldknopf - The Woodlands TX, US
Essam Ahmed Sheta - The Woodlands TX, US
Jennifer Kathleen Bryson - The Woodlands TX, US
Alan B. Hollingsworth - Oklahoma City OK, US
Assignee:
Power3 Medical Products, Inc. - The Woodlands TX
International Classification:
C12Q 1/02
Abstract:
The invention relates to 12 identified protein biomarkers for diagnosis, determination of disease severity, and therapeutic response monitoring of patients with breast cancer. The method is based on the use of 2-dimensional (2D) gel electrophoresis to separate the complex mixture of proteins found in blood serum, the quantitation of up to 12 protein biomarkers, and statistical analysis of the concentration of the protein biomarkers.