METHOD FOR ASSESSING LYMPH NODE METASTATIC POTENTIAL OF ENDOMETRIAL CANCER

摘要

Provided is an approach for discriminating endometrial cancer at a molecular level between endometrial cancer with lymph node metastasis and that without metastasis. A method for assessing lymph node metastasis or lymph node metastatic potential of endometrial cancer, comprising the step of measuring an expression level of an expression product of at least one DNA comprising a transcription start site in a biological sample derived from a cancer tissue isolated from an endometrial cancer patient, wherein the DNA comprises a base at an arbitrary position in the transcription start site in any of nucleotide sequences represented by SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 277 and at least one or more bases located immediately downstream thereof, and the transcription start site is a region wherein both ends thereof are defined by the first base in any of the nucleotide sequences represented by SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 277 and the 101st base counted from the 3' end.