Method for detecting anaplastic thyroid cancer, and method for its suppression

摘要

An object of the present invention is to provide a method for detecting cancer through identification of genes exhibiting characteristic behavior in the cases of cancer such as anaplastic thyroid cancer. The present invention provides a method for detecting cancer which comprises detecting canceration of a specimen using the amplification of a gene of the p12 region of chromosome 8 in the specimen as an indicator.