Method for Treatment of Primary Hormone Resistant Endometrial and Breast Cancers
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US · United States
- Current Assignee / Owner
- LIPOXEN TECHNOLOGIES LTD
- Publication Date
- 2017-07-20
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 62 / 076,546, filed on Nov. 7, 2014, the disclosure of which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety.FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0002] The invention provides a method for treatment of primary progesterone receptor-negative (PR−) endometrial cancer comprising administering (i) cridanimod or a salt or an ester thereof and (ii) a progesterone receptor (PR) agonist. The invention further provides a method for treatment of a primary estrogen receptor-negative (ER−) breast cancer, comprising administering (i) cridanimod or a salt or an ester thereof and (ii) a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) or a selective estrogen receptor down-regulator (SERD). Also provided are compositions related to the above methods.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0003] Endometrial cancer is one of the most common invasive gynecologic cancers. Currently no therapy of recurrent or metastatic e...