METHOD FOR ASSISTING DETECTION OF HEAD AND NECK CANCER

• Main Authors: TAHARA, Hidetoshi, TAHARA, Makoto
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 05.01.2022
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES; CULTURE MEDIA; ENZYMOLOGY; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PHYSICS; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPIRITS; TESTING; VINEGAR; WINE

The present invention aims at providing a method of assisting the detection of head and neck cancer with high accuracy. The present invention provides a method of assisting the detection of head and neck cancer, which includes using as an index the abundance of at least one of miRNAs, isoform miRNAs (isomiRs), precursor miRNAs, transfer RNA fragments (tRFs), or non-coding RNA fragments (LincRNAs or MiscRNAs) contained in a test sample isolated from a living body, whose nucleotide sequence is represented by any one of SEQ ID NOs: 162, 160, 145, 143, 146, 140, 141, 1 to 139, 142, 144, 147 to 159, and 161, wherein a higher abundance of at least one of the miRNAs, isomiRs, precursor miRNAs, transfer RNA fragments, or non-coding RNA fragments whose nucleotide sequence is represented by any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 71 and 118 to 136 than that of healthy subjects or a lower abundance of at least one of the miRNAs, isomiRs, precursor miRNAs, transfer RNA fragments, or non-coding RNA fragments whose nucleotide sequence is represented by any one of SEQ ID NOs: 72 to 117 and 137 to 162 than that of healthy subjects indicates a higher likelihood of having head and neck cancer.