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Novel methods of cancer diagnosis and therapy targeted against a cancer stem line

a cancer stem line and cancer technology, applied in the field of cancer diagnosis and treatment, can solve the problems of high proliferative targets, clinical relapse, and increased tumor cell burden, and achieve the effects of clinical relapse, and reducing tumor cell burden

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-02-22
BERGSTEIN IVAN
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[0024] It is another specific object of the invention to provide novel and improved cancer therapies which eradicate a cancer stem line thereby destroying the immortal portion of the tumor (i.e., the cancer stem line) and in doing so providing a true cure by preventing clinical relapse.
[0031] Moreover, this deficiency by conventional models explains many of the inadequacies of treatment regimens derived thereof, e.g., conventional chemotherapies, irradiation, experimental immunotherapies, as well as newer gene-directed therapies designed for treatment of cancer. In general, such conventionally-based methods attempt to eradicate fast-growing mutant cancer cells. This idea has clinical utility as, if successful, such methods may destroy the highly proliferative mutant progeny of the cancer stem line and thereby diminish tumor burden (since mortal cancer stem line progeny make up the bulk of the tumor mass), thus potentially effecting clinical remission (due to significant decrease in tumor cell burden). However, a problem associated with such treatments is that the targeted highly proliferative mutant cancer cells are largely mortal while their immortal progenitor, i.e., the cancer stem line, will remain spared of such therapies. This is disadvantageous as the cancer stem line over time can rear more highly proliferative mutant cancer cells, thereby effecting an increase in tumor cell burden and clinical relapse.
[0032] By contrast, the subject invention provides novel therapies which eradicate the slow-growing relatively mutationally-spared cancer stem line which is the progenitor of the larger population of highly proliferative, largely mortal, often mutant cancer cells. Therefore, the present invention may provide a true cancer “cure” as it would eradicate the founder line thereby alleviating and potentially preventing clinical relapse.

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Moreover, this deficiency by conventional models explains many of the inadequacies of treatment regimens derived thereof, e.g., conventional chemotherapies, irradiation, experimental immunotherapies, as well as newer gene-directed therapies designed for treatment of cancer.
However, a problem associated with such treatments is that the targeted highly proliferative mutant cancer cells are largely mortal while their immortal progenitor, i.e., the cancer stem line, will remain spared of such therapies.
This is disadvantageous as the cancer stem line over time can rear more highly proliferative mutant cancer cells, thereby effecting an increase in tumor cell burden and clinical relapse.

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[0122] A patient is found to have breast cancer by conventional detection techniques (e.g., mammogram and biopsy). Monoclonal antibodies designed to bind specific antigens present on the surfaces of normal mammary gland epithelial stem cells, also possessing an attached therapeutic moiety (e.g., cytotoxin), are delivered intravenously to the patient. This therapeutic monoclonal antibody will seek out and destroy a cancer stem line fueling the breast tumor while largely sparing environmentally-sequestered normal mammary epithelial stem cells (see FIG. 3A). Efforts td limit this toxicity further are discussed in the final section, (III).

II. Forcing a Cancer Stem Line to Undergo Asymmetric Mitosis

[0123] An alternative tactic to immunotherapy for containing a cancer stem line is to design therapies which (rather than killing stem cells) bring about the conditions of a normally sequestered stem cell micro-environment to wayward stem cells (i.e. cancer cells) which in turn should force...

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[0193] A patient is found to have pancreatic cancer by conventional detection techniques (e.g., CT scan and biopsy). A ribozyme is constructed that specifically blocks a factor (e.g., GSK-3-beta) that normally inhibits asymmetric mitosis in pancreatic epithelial stem cells. The ribozyme is placed within a viral vector and delivered intravenously to the patient. This therapeutic vector will force stem cells of pancreatic origin to divide asymmetrically thus causing the cancer stem line fueling the pancreatic tumor to assume arithmetic growth kinetics (see FIG. 3B) without significant toxicity to normal pancreatic epithelial stem cells that are dividing asymmetrically anyway.

[0194] 3) Induction Of Irreversible Stem Line Differentiation

[0195] As mentioned, one novel OSES-derived method of treating cancer (as described in subsection 2) is to force a cancer stem line to switch from symmetric to asymmetric mitotic division. However, in designing such a therapy, it should be remembered t...

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[0206] A patient is found to have lung cancer by conventional detection techniques (e.g., CT scan and biopsy). A ribozyme is constructed that specifically blocks a factor (e.g., SNRPN) that normally activates asymmetric mitosis in lung epithelial stem cells. The ribozyme is placed within a viral vector and delivered intravenously to the patient. This therapeutic vector will force stem cells of lung origin to divide symmetrically thus causing the cancer stem line fueling the lung tumor to assume exponential growth kinetics. This maneuver is quickly followed by intravenous administration of a starvation-inducing agent e.g., inhibitor of nucleic acid synthesis) which forces the cancer stem line to initiate its differentiation program but in a symmetric manner thereby extinguishing the stem line (see FIG. 3C). Toxicity to normal stem cells may be minimal due to their environmental sequestration. Efforts to limit this toxicity further are discussed in the next section (III.).

[0207] III....

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Abstract

Improved methods for treatment of cancer which involve the targeting of slow-growing, relatively mutationally-spared cancer stem line are provided. These methods are an improvement over previous cancer therapeutic methods because they provide for very early cancer treatment and reduce the likelihood of clinical relapse after treatment.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. Ser. No. 08 / 933,330, filed Sep. 18, 1997, incorporated by reference in its entirety herein.FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] The present invention relates to novel methods for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, and is based on the novel OSES (“one-step epigenetic switch”) model of carcinogenesis. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] Classical cancer models to date which have attempted to explain the character of cancer cells have typically described them as fast-growing and highly mutant cells. These cancer cells are hypothesized to have been produced during carcinogenesis because of a multi-step neo-Darwinian evolutionary process involving mutation-selection events at the cellular level (Fearon et al, “A Genetic Model for Colorectal Tumorigenesis”, Cell, 61:759-767 (1990); Nowell, “The Clonal Evolution of Tumor Cell Populations”, Science (Washington, D.C.), 194:23-28 (1976)). [0004] Rela...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A61K39/395G01N33/50G01N33/574
CPCC07K16/30G01N33/5017G01N33/574A61K31/7088A61K39/39558A61K45/06A61K2039/505C07K2317/77A61P31/00A61P35/00
Inventor BERGSTEIN, IVAN
Owner BERGSTEIN IVAN
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