A combination therapy for cancer treatment
AssigneePurdue Research Foundation
InventorMeden Isaac-Lam
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Abstract
A pharmaceutical combination comprising (i) a photosensitizing chlorin-vitamin conjugate or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, or metal complex thereof, and (ii) at least one chemotherapeutic agent; a pharmaceutical composition comprising the pharmaceutical combination; a combination of pharmaceutical compositions comprising (i) and (ii); and method of treating cancer.
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A pharmaceutical combination comprising (i) a chlorin-vitamin conjugate or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, or metal complex and (ii) at least one chemotherapeutic agent, wherein the chlorin-vitamin conjugate or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, or metal complex is a photosensitizer.
A method for treating a patient for cancer, which method comprises administering to the patient (i) a therapeutically effective amount of a chlorin-vitamin conjugate or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, or metal complex and (ii) a therapeutically effective amount of at least one chemotherapeutic agent, wherein the chlorin-vitamin conjugate or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, or metal complex is a photosensitizer, whereupon the patient is treated for cancer.
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