Methods of use of cyclopamine analogs

A method for treating cancer, which comprises administering to a patient in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of the formula:

• or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in combination with one or more other cancer treatments;
• wherein the cancer is chosen from one or more of:
• a cancer of the pulmonary system, a brain cancer, a cancer of the gastrointestinal tract, a skin cancer, a genitourinary cancer, a pancreatic cancer, a lung cancer, a medullobastoma, a basal cell carcinoma, a glioma, a breast cancer, a prostate cancer, a testicular cancer, an esophageal cancer, a hepatocellular cancer, a gastric cancer, a gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), a colon cancer, a colorectal cancer, an ovarian cancer, a melanoma, a neuroectodermal tumor, head and neck cancer, polycythemia Vera, Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, heavy chain disease, essential thrombocythemia, a sarcoma, a soft-tissue sarcoma, fibrosarcoma, myxosarcoma, liposarcoma, a chondrosarcoma, an osteogenic sarcoma, a chordoma, an angiosarcoma, an endotheliosarcoma, a lymphangiosarcoma, a lymphangioendotheliosarcoma, a synovioma, a mesothelioma, a leiomyosarcoma, a cervical cancer, a uterine cancer, an endometrial cancer, a carcinoma, a bladder carcinoma, an epithelial carcinoma, a squamous cell carcinoma, an adenocarcinoma, a bronchogenic carcinoma, a renal cell carcinoma, a hepatoma, a bile duct carcinoma, a neuroendocrine cancer, or a carcinoid tumor.