Cancer treatment with epothilones
AssigneeNovartis AG
InventorsTerence O'Reilly, Markus Wartmann, Manuel Litchman, Pamela Cohen
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Abstract
The invention relates to the treatment of a proliferative disease, especially according to certain treatment regimens, with an epothilone, especially with epothilone A and more preferably epothilone B; as well as to the treatment of certain cancers with such an epothilone.
Claims72
A method for treating a proliferative disease, said method comprising the step of administering, in at least one treatment, a therapeutically effective amount of an epothilone, together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, to a warm-blooded animal in need of such treatment.
The use of an epothilone for the manufacture of a pharmaceutical preparation for the treatment of a proliferative disease, comprising admixing said epothilone with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.