Novel rna molecule for cancer detection

5-7. (canceled)

11-14. (canceled)

21-32. (canceled)

35-44. (canceled)

48-56. (canceled)

-60. (canceled)

A kit for diagnosing lung cancer in a patient, monitoring the course of lung cancer in a patient, determining whether a patient responds to a therapeutic treatment of lung cancer, determining the risk for a relapse of lung cancer in a patient, and/or detecting a minimal residual disease in a patient having lung cancer, wherein said kit comprises:

• means for determining the level of an RNA molecule in a blood sample from a patient, wherein the RNA molecule comprises a nucleotide sequence according to SEQ ID NO:
• 1, is a fragment thereof, or has a sequence having at least 80% sequence identity thereto.

62-63. (canceled)