Biomarkers for epithelial cancer diagnosis and treatment

摘要

Disclosed herein are methods for diagnosing the state of an epithelial tumor or tissue in a subject. Also disclosed are methods of diagnosing tumor initiation in an epithelial tissue of a subject. Also disclosed are methods of determining prognosis of a subject with an epithelial tumor. These methods include, in part, measuring the amount of pSer239-VASP, pSerl57-VASP, and/or total VASP in a subject or in a tissue or tumor of a subject and comparing those levels to an appropriate reference level. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.