| abstract |
The present invention provides methods of diagnosis, providing a prognosis and a therapeutic target for the treatment of cancers that overexpress N-cadherin and Ly6-E, including prostrate and bladder cancers. The invention further provides methods of drug discovery to identify pharmaceutical agents that inhibit or prevent the binding of N-cadherin and Ly6-E to its receptor, which are useful when used alone or in combination with known chemotherapeutics, immunotherapeutics, and radiotherapy for the reversal of resistance, tumor progression, and metastasis of cancers associated with the overexpession of N-cadherin and Ly6-E. |