2470 results about "Chemo therapy" patented technology

The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the treatment of Hodgkin's Disease, comprising administering proteins characterized by their ability to bind to CD30, or compete with monoclonal antibodies AC10 or HeFi-1 for binding to CD30, and exert a cytostatic or cytotoxic effect on Hodgkin's disease cells in the absence of effector cells or complement. Such proteins include derivatives of monoclonal antibodies AC10 and HeFi-1. The proteins of the invention can be human, humanized, or chimeric antibodies; further, they can be conjugated to cytotoxic agents such as chemotherapeutic drugs. The invention further relates to nucleic acids encoding the proteins of the invention. The invention yet further relates to a method for identifying an anti-CD30 antibody useful for the treatment or prevention of Hodgkin's Disease.

The invention provides a curcumin oral emulsion and injection, wherein the emulsion comprises curcumin, oil, emulsifying agent and water, the injection also contains isotonic agent. The invention also discloses the process for preparing the emulsion and its use in preparing medicaments for treating or preventing tumor, resisting tumor transfer, enhancing curative effects of chemotherapy drugs, reducing side effects of chemotherapy and improving immunity functions for tumor patients.

The invention discloses a full-function liquid medicine preparation intelligent robot and a medicine preparation method thereof. The full-function liquid medicine preparation intelligent robot comprises a shell, a medicine rack, a bottle taking mechanical arm, a liquid pumping mechanical arm, a bottle clamping mechanism and a liquid medicine shaking device, and is characterized in that: the shellis provided with an operating door with a seal; the medicine rack is arranged in the shell and corresponds to the operating door; the medicine rack has a rotary structure with more than two side faces; and each side face of the medicine rack is provided with accommodating areas for different medicines, and an indoor constant temperature and disinfecting cotton ball accommodating area. The intelligent robot has the property of full functions of preparing medical liquid, nutrient solution and chemical therapy medicines, radically changes the traditional mode of preparing cytotoxic medicines andthe manual preparation environment, has the characteristics of accurate liquid preparation, sterile preparation process and no cross-infection, protects the health safety of medical workers, avoids the leakage of the cytotoxic medicines, is environment-friendly, and saves cost of hospital medication and labor cost.

A method, and system, to induce remission in diseases characterized by excess production of sTNR and interleukin 2 has been developed. In the most preferred embodiment, the system consists of antibodies to sTNFR1, sTNFR2 and sIL2R immobilized in a column containing a material such as SEPHAROSE™. The patient is connected to a pheresis machine which separates the blood into the plasma and red cells, and the plasma is circulated through the column until the desired reduction in levels of sTNFR1, sTNFR2, and IL2 is achieved, preferably to less than normal levels. In the preferred method, patients are treated three times a week for four weeks. This process can be repeated after a period of time. Clinical studies showed reduction in tumor burden in patients having failed conventional chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

The presence of tumor nodules in organs often results in serious clinical manifestations and the permeation by cancer cells of sheaths surrounding organs often produces clinical manifestations of pleural effusion, ascites or cerebral edema. The present invention addresses this problem by providing a method for treating tumors comprising (a) intratumoral administration of a superantigen and/or (b) intrathecal or intracavitary administration of a superantigen directly into the sheath. Intratumoral superantigen results in significant and sustained reduction of the tumor size. Intrathecal administration produces significant sustained reduction of the fluid accumulation associated with clinical improvement and prolonged survival. Useful superantigen compositions for intrathecal and intratumoral injection include tumoricidally effective homologues, fragments and fusion proteins of native superantigens. Also disclosed is combined therapy that includes intratumoral or intrathecal superantigen compositions in combination with (i) intratumoral low, non-toxic doses of one or more chemotherapeutic drugs or (ii) systemic chemotherapy at reduced and non-toxic doses of chemotherapeutic drugs.

A method for classifying cancer patients as eligible to receive cancer therapy with a small molecule inhibitor of Bcl-2 comprising determination of the presence or absence in a patient tissue sample of chromosomal copy number status at the chromosomal locus 13q14 comprising the microRNA's miR-15a and miR-16-1 or at the chromosomal locus 11q23.1 comprising the microRNA miR-34c. The classification of cancer patients based upon the presence or absence of 13q14 loss or gain allows better selection of patients to receive chemotherapy with a small molecule Bcl-2 inhibitor such as N-(4-(4-((2-(4-chlorophenyl)-5,5-dimethyl-1-cyclohex-1-en-1-yl) methyl)piperazin-1-yl)benzoyl)-4-(((1R)-3-(morpholin-4-yl)-1-((phenylsulfanyl) methyl)propyl)amino)-3-((trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl)benzenesulfonamide, and for monitoring patient response to this therapy.

This disclosure provides a method for treating a subject afflicted with a lung cancer, which method comprises administering to the subject therapeutically effective amounts of: (a) an anti-cancer agent which is an antibody or an antigen-binding portion thereof that specifically binds to a Programmed Death-1 (PD-1) receptor and inhibits PD-1 activity; and (b) another anti-cancer agent. The other anti-cancer agent can be a platinum-based doublet chemotherapy, an EGFR-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor, bevacizumab, an anti-Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte Antigen-4 (CTLA-4) antibody, or any other therapy used to treat lung cancer in the art or disclosed herein.

The invention discloses an apparatus and a method for processing tumor image information processing based on digital virtual organ. The apparatus comprises: a body imaging device; image sequence processing device; body organ histomorphology images database; a device for extracting characteristics of healthy persons and patients and merging three dimensional reconstructed multi-model image data; body organization physiological and pathological database and embolism chemotherapy relevant operation simulation software. The method comprises: getting images sequence with organ internal channel information; processing the images sequence and creating virtual organs with organization structure information; extracting characteristics from human organ histomorphology images database and patients' organs image data, having three dimensional re-build multi-model image data merge, and establishing virtual organs.

The invention provides an application of a type of berbamine derivatives and salts thereof in the preparation of drugs for the treatment of tumors, which is mainly applied in the preparation of the drugs for the prevention and treatment of nuclear transcription factor NF-kBp65 activity-related diseases and BCR/ABL transcription activity-related diseases. The drugs are combined and prepared by the compounds of the invention and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients. The preparation forms comprise solid preparations, semi-solid preparations or liquid preparations. The type of berbamine derivatives and the salts thereof provided by the invention have broader and stronger anti-leukemia and anti-solid-tumor activity, the tumors proved to be sensitive are leukemia, multiple myeloma, liver cancer, osteosarcoma and breast cancer; the toxicity and the side effects are lighter. An in vitro cell culture system and animal experiments confirm that the berbamine derivatives and the salts thereof have no significant toxicity or side effects to the growth of normal human hematopoietic cells and experimental animals under the anti-tumor dosage, which are superior to the commonly used chemotherapy drugs.

A generic structure for the peptides of the present invention includes A-X-B-C, where C is a cargo moiety, the B portion includes basic amino acids, X is a cleavable linker sequence, and the A portion includes acidic amino acids. The intact structure is not significantly taken up by cells; however, upon extracellular cleavage of X, the B-C portion is taken up, delivering the cargo to targeted cells. Cargo may be, for example, a contrast agent for diagnostic imaging, a chemotherapeutic drug, or a radiation-sensitizer for therapy. Cleavage of X allows separation of A from B, unmasking the normal ability of the basic amino acids in B to drag cargo C into cells near the cleavage event. X is cleaved extracellularly, preferably under physiological conditions. D-amino acids are preferred for the A and B portions, to minimize immunogenicity and nonspecific cleavage by background peptidases or proteases.

The present invention regards predicting a response to a therapy using RNA expression profiling. In particular, a resistance to a chemotherapy, such as tamoxifen, is predicted by comparing expressed genes in a patient on the therapy to a patient sensitive to the chemotherapy. In further embodiments, there is an RNA expression profile indicative of tamoxifen resistance in an individual. In additional embodiments, the RNA expression profile comprises DUSP6 EBP50, and/or RhoGDIa.

The invention discloses a nanometer medicine particle. The nanometer medicine particle comprises a hydrophobic polymer, a single-layer lipid molecule, an amphipathy macromolecular compound, at least one chemotherapy drug attached to the hydrophobic polymer, and at least one near-infrared photothermal conversion agent, wherein the hydrophobic polymer, the at least one chemotherapy drug attached to the hydrophobic polymer, and the at least one near-infrared photothermal conversion agent form a hydrophobic core; the single-layer lipid molecule surrounds the surface of the hydrophobic core to form an intermediate layer; and the amphipathy macromolecular compound intersperses in the intermediate layer to form a shell. The invention also provides a preparation method of the nanometer medicine particle. The nanometer medicine particle can realize the combined treatment of thermotherapy and chemotherapy and has high biocompatibility; and the preparation method is simple, convenient and easy to carry out.

The invention provides a method to reduce the rate of tumor metastasis and tumor recurrence after surgery and chemotherapy and radiotherapy by removing circulating tumor cells (CTC) in the blood after surgery and chemotherapy and radiotherapy by means of specificity, thereby improving the survival rate of cancer patients. The invention provides a method and a system for removing tumor cells. Patients ' blood is guided out to pass through a container, an antibody or a ligand capable of combining with the specificity of the tumor cells is fixed on a solid-phase carrier in the container, whne the patients ' blood passes through the container, the tumor cells can be absorbed by the specificity to be unable to flow back to patients ' blood, and then the tumor cells are removed from the blood to reduce the recidivation of tumor patients and to prolong their survival rate. The removed tumor cells can be washed out from the solid-phase carrier for counting. The invention further provides a method to remove pathogen from blood. Blood is withdrawn from a patient and its plasma and cellular components are separated by means of a plasma separator under the effect of a blood pump, the plasma portion inactivates the pathogen in the blood via a pathogen inactivating device, flows back to extracorporeal circulation passage to merge with the cellular components and then is returned to the patient. The method adopts a physical means, so that side effects can be reduced. The device is simple in structure and can be connected with other blood purification devices.

The invention belongs to the field of pharmaceutic preparations, and relates to a targeted ligand-PEG (polyethylene glycol)-cholesterol/tocopherol derivative, and a preparation method and an application of the derivative, in particular to an application of the derivative in a composite mechanism mediate tumor targeted drug delivery system. According to the derivative, the preparation method and the application, a drug delivery system consisting of the targeted ligand-PEG-cholesterol/tocopherol derivative with a targeting function, a long circulating function and a pH (power of hydrogen) sensitive function as a functional material, a cation liposome and a drug can simultaneously carry anticancer polypeptide and gene/chemotherapy drugs. According to the system, different drugs are jointly entrapped into the lipid nano drug delivery system and delivered into a targeted cell by utilizing a physicochemical property difference between components or by in-vivo specific targeted recognition, signal conduction blocking and pH triggering PEG chain breaking charge reversion methods, so that a targeted tumor therapeutic effect is improved. According to the derivative, the preparation method and the application, the advantages of the system in directional delivery, co-delivery and the like are proved by in-vivo and in-vitro activity evaluation, the anticancer activity is improved significantly, and definite synergic therapeutic and immunity effects are provided.

The invention relates to the field of nanometer drug carriers, and concretely relates to an asymmetric magnetic mesoporous silica rod supporting chemotherapeutic and gene drugs and application thereof to tumor diagnosis and treatment. The asymmetric magnetic mesoporous silica rod is prepared by employing spherical magnetic ferrite nanoparticles and ethyl orthosilicate through a sol-gel method, and the asymmetric magnetic mesoporous silica rod is subjected to surface functionalization modification, and is successively loaded with a chemotherapeutic drug, coated by a positive high-molecular polymer and loaded with a gene drug, so that a target product is obtained. The chemotherapeutic drug is connected with the silica rod through functionalization of the mesoporous surface, and the silica rod is endowed with the pH-responsive drug release characteristic, also the biocompatibility of the composite material is increased and the in-vivo cycling time is prolonged, and gene is supported in an electrostatic adsorption mode. The composite material is injected into a living body via an intravenous route, the characteristics of nanoparticle in-vivo passive targeting, gene guiding and pH-responsive drug release of the composite material are utilized, also the cooperativity of the multidrug resistant gene and the chemotherapeutic drug is utilized, and in-vitro magnetic targeting, NMR imaging and other technologies are applied to diagnosis and treatment of malignant tumors.

The invention discloses a medicament formula for relieving pain caused by infusion medicament and preventing phlebitis. The medicament formula can be used for relieving pain caused by intravenous supplementing potassium, infusion mannitol, azithromycin, fructose diphosphate sodium and chemotherapeutic medicaments, and can be used for effectively preventing and treating extravasation phlebitis caused by long-term use of a remaining needle, infusion of vein high-nutrition medicaments, infusion of chemotherapeutic medicaments, infusion extravasation and the like. According to the medicament formula, 20-35ng of anisodamine, 6-13ml of lidocaine, 15-26mg of dexamethasone and 4-6ml of glycerin are arranged in a sterile kidney basin, sterile gauze is coated above a puncture part after being uniformly wetted, and an external preservative film is wound on the gauze. The medicinal formula has the advantages of continually and efficiently relieving local pain caused by infusion medicaments, and effectively preventing and treating local inflammation, swelling pain and stripped cable change caused by infusion.

The invention discloses a nano-drug carrier with the magnetothermal and photothermal effects. The particle size is 50 nanometers to 300 nanometers, and the nano-drug carrier is prepared from mesoporous silica particles, Fe3O4 nanoparticles embedded into the mesoporous silica particles and graphene oxide with which the surfaces of the mesoporous silica particles are coated. The invention further provides a preparation method of the nano-drug carrier. The superparamagnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles are prepared through a solvothermal method, the Fe3O4 nanoparticles are composited by taking hexadecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide as a structure-directing agent and taking tetraethoxysilane as a silicon source through the sol-gel self-assembling process, and then magnetic mesoporous nanoparticles Fe3O4/mSiO2 with the magnetic property adjustable and controllable are prepared; the surfaces of the Fe3O4/mSiO2 mesoporous nanoparticles are coated with graphene through the ion interaction or electrostatic interaction or hydrogen-bond interaction, and then the nano-drug carrier which both can efficiently deliver anti-cancer drugs and has the magnetothermal and photothermal effects is obtained. Accordingly, cancer treatment in which medical chemotherapy cooperates with magnetothermal and photothermal treatment can be achieved.

The present invention relates to compounds of formula I:

and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, stereoisomers or tautomers thereof which are inhibitors of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) and thus useful for the treatment of cancer, inflammatory diseases, reperfusion injuries, ischemic conditions, stroke, renal failure, cardiovascular diseases, vascular diseases other than cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, neurodegenerative diseases, retroviral infection, retinal damage or skin senescence and UV-induced skin damage, and as chemo- and/or radiosensitizers for cancer treatment.