BIOMARKER FOR CANCER, AND CANCER DIAGNOSIS USING SAME

摘要

The present invention relates to a kit for cancer diagnosis or prognosis analysis. An MEST according to the present invention is a marker for cancer having significantly improved accuracy and reliability. Particularly, the marker of the present invention has superior accuracy and reliability as a marker for breast cancer and liver cancer. The MEST of the present invention exhibits extremely superior accuracy and reliability as a marker for metastatic cancer. Moreover, according to the present invention, early cancer diagnosis and prognostic determination may be enabled in a very specific manner from a biological sample (for example, blood or serum) using the MEST, the expression of which specifically increases only in the cells and tissue of a cancer patient.