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US 10,948,479 B2Granted
Method for disease diagnosis based on metabolite in urine
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorMinoru Sakairi
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method, a device, and a kit for detecting a cancer, predicting a cancer risk, determining a cancer stage, determining a cancer prognosis, and/or evaluating the effectiveness of a treatment in a subject by measuring a urinary metabolite in the subject, and a method for testing a cancer.
Claims7
A method for evaluating a cancer, comprising:
- measuring a urinary metabolite in a urine sample derived from a subject;
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- evaluating a breast cancer or a colon cancer in the subject based on the measurement results,
- wherein the urinary metabolite comprises a metabolite having a structure of C6H15NO2 and which is measured to have a mass of 134.11 in the positive ion detection mode of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC/MS).
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