FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: inventions concern methods and analyses for studying expression of one or more biomarkers in a mammal's tissue or cell sample; study kits and products are presented also. Identifying expression of GalNac-T14 molecules predicts sensitivity or specifies that the tissue or cell sample is supposed to be sensitive to apoptosis inducing agents, such as Apo2L/TRAIL.
EFFECT: information obtained by the analysis aiming at identifying GalNac-T14 expression in the tissue or the cell sample in a mammal can provide an attending physician with the information which can be used for prescribing an optimum treatment regimen for the patients suffering such diseases as pancreatic cancer, lymphoma, non-small cell carcinoma of lung, colon cancer, rectal cancer, melanoma or chondrosarcoma.
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