The application belongs to the field of
medicine, and particularly relates to application of a benzothiazepine compound in preparation of a
cancer treatment
drug, wherein the benzothiazepine compound has a
structural formula as shown in formula I, and the
cancer is at least one selected from
liver cancer,
intestinal cancer,
bone cancer and
lung cancer. According to a
cell activity experiment of the application, it is found that the compound shown in formula I shows clear and different activities on
human liver cancer cells,
human lung cancer cells, human
osteosarcoma cells and human
colorectal cancer cells
in vitro. The inventors of the application find, for the first time, through activity screening on a
small molecule skeleton, that the benzothiazepine compound shown in formula I has excellent activity on various different types of human tumors, and the benzothiazepine compound provides an optional scheme for a broad-spectrum
anticancer drug.