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US 7,732,485 B2Granted
Treatment of cancer
AssigneeThe University of Manchester
InventorsKevin Flower, Alan McGown
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Abstract
The invention relates to the treatment of cancers, in particular, cancers that are resistant to platinum based chemotherapeutic agents. A pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of cancer comprising an effective amount of a compound having two gold(I) atoms each covalently bonded to a carbon atom in a covalent link connecting the two gold(I) atoms and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient.
Claims2
A pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of cancer comprising an effective amount of a compound selected from the group consisting of:
- a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient.
A pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of cancer comprising
- an effective amount of a compound having the formula:
- where:
- L and L′ are PPh3;
- R′ and R″ are each independently selected from the group consisting of methylene, ethylene, propylene, butylene and phenylene groups;
- a is 0 to 3;
- b is 0 to 3;
- R′″ is H;
- and
- a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.