194 results about "Irinotecan" patented technology

This application provides methods and compositions for the treatment of cancer. The application provides compositions comprising hyaluronic acid and a chemotherapeutic agent such as irinotecan that are useful in the treatment of cancer.

The invention discloses camptothecin and a self-emulsifying medicine precursor of a derivative thereof. The self-emulsifying medicine precursor is prepared by the covalent union of medicine molecules and hydrophilic radicals, wherein the medicine molecules are camptothecin molecules or camptothecin derivative molecules, and the medicine carrying quantity of the precursor is as high as more than 50%. The invention also discloses application of the self-emulsifying medicine precursor. The self-emulsifying medicine precursor can form micelles or vesicles with nano size in water, can be used as a medicine carrier used for loading one or a plurality of other anticancer medicines, such as CPT derivatives, yew alcohol, turmeric essence, methotrexate, irinotecan, danshinolic acid, matrine, doxorubicine and the like, can form a nano medicine carrying a plurality of medicines and can realize the synergic treatment of the medicines.

The present invention is for novel compositions and methods for treating cancer, particularly, for treating cancer in mammals and more particularly in humans. The therapeutic compositions of the present invention include liposome entrapped irinotecan in which the liposome can contain any of a variety of neutral or charged liposome-forming compounds and cardiolipin. The liposomes of the present invention can be either multilamellar vesicles and unilamellar vesicles, as desired.

Provided herein are methods, compositions and kits for the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer or breast cancer brain metastases. The method comprises administration of 4-iodo-3-nitrobenzamide, a metabolite or salt thereof in combination with irinotecan. The method of treating locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer comprises at least one 21 day treatment cycle.

The present invention relates to therapeutic immunoconjugates comprising SN-38 attached to an anti-Trop-2 antibody or antigen-binding antibody fragment. In preferred embodiments, the antibody may be an hRS7 antibody. The methods and compostions are of use to treat Trop-2 expressing cancers in human patients, preferably in patients who are resistant to or relapsed from at least one prior anti-cancer therapy, more preferably in patients who are resistant to or relapsed from treatment with irinotecan. The immunoconjugate may be administered at a dosage of 3 mg/kg to 18 mg/kg, preferably 8 to 12 mg/kg, more preferably 8 to 10 mg/kg. When administered at specified dosages and schedules, the immunoconjugate can reduce solid tumors in size and reduce or eliminate metastases. Preferred tumors to treat with the subject immunoconjugates include triple-negative breast cancer, HER+, ER+, progesterone+ breast cancer, metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer, a metastatic small-cell lung cancer and metastatic pancreatic cancer.

The invention discloses a pro-drug as shown in general formula (I), which is formed by coupling camptothecin or a derivative of the camptothecin with non-linear configuration glycol polyethylene, wherein, the definition for varied groups is available in the specification. A physiological disposition research on nude mice discloses that: the pro-drug has a time-delay plasma concentration - time curve, and the plasma concentration can still be maintained at over 100ng/ml 72 hours after intravenous medication. Evaluation on physiological drug effect shows that the pro-drug has strong growth inhibiting effect against the LOVO HCT116 cell line transplantable tumor inoculated into the nude mice and also has obvious growth inhibitory activity against human lung carcinoma H460 cell line transportable tumor inoculated into the nude mice. The inhibition of the pro-drug is better than that of Irinotecan, a positive control drug and has no obvious systemic toxicity.

The present invention is directed to an irinotecan acid addition salt which is formed through addition of an acid selected from the group consisting of sulfuric acid, nitric acid phosphoric acid, methanesulfonic acid, citric acid maleic acid and succinic acid to Irinotecan, to a method for producing the salt, and to a pharmaceutical composition containing the salt. The addition salt requires no heating process during drug preparation and provides an aqueous drug product in which the salt is stably dissolved.

The present invention is directed to methods and compositions for determining the presence or absence of polymorphisms within an ABCC2, UGT1A1, and/or SLCO1B1 gene and correlating these polymorphisms with activity levels of their gene products and making evaluations regarding the effect on their substrates, particularly those substrates that are drugs. In addition, there are methods and compositions of evaluating the risk of an individual for developing toxicity or adverse event(s) to an ABCC2, UGT1A1, and/or SLCO1B1 substrate. In some embodiments, the invention concerns methods and compositions for determining the presence or absence of ABCC2 3972C>T variant and predicting or anticipating the level of activity of ABCC2 and determining dosages of an ABCC2 drug substrate, such as irinotecan, in a patient. Such methods and compositions can be used to evaluate whether irinotecan-based therapy, or therapy involving other ABCC2 substrates, may pose toxicity problems if given to a particular patient or predicting their efficacy. Alterations in suggested therapy may ensue based on genotyping results.

The use of the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of individual drugs to determine appropriate administration ratios of drugs for combination therapy, wherein the ratios of drugs are fixed based on the same percentage of the MTD for each drug. Furthermore, antineoplastic compositions comprising liposomal encapsulated gemcitabine alone or in combination with free or liposomal encapsulated antineoplastic agents, such as idarubicin, irinotecan, etopside, cisplatin, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, or vincristine are diclosed.

The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition and a treating method for colorectal cancer which is difficult for a surgical treatment, comprising an anti-A33 human antibody and a chemotherapy agent in combination. Based on the present invention, a pharmaceutical composition and a treating method comprising the combination of anti-A33 human antibody with CPT-11 (irinotecan) can exhibit a certain degree of antitumor effect on a patient with colorectal cancer who is found recurrence after previously-initiated therapy and/or a patient with colorectal cancer who is difficult to be cured by existing treatments for colorectal cancer.

The key intermediate in any synthesis of Irinotecan is 7-ethyl-10-hydroxy-20(S)-camptothecin. A process for the efficient synthesis of this intermediate is demonstrated proceeding through readily available 20(S)-camptothecin. Various other tecan compounds may be made by use of corresponding 7-alkyl-10-hydroxy-20(S)-camptothecin intermediates.

The invention discloses a kit and method for detecting gene polymorphism of an irinotecan personalized medicine by a pyrophosphoric acid sequencing method. The kit is used for parting an irinotecan medicine gene, particularly single nucleotide polymorphism of UGT1A1*6 (rs4148323) and UGT1A1*28 (rs3064744). The kit comprises primers shown as SEQ ID NO. 3-8. According to the kit, accurate, quick and high-flux detection of the UGT1A1*6 (rs4148323) and the UGT1A1*28 (rs3064744) can be realized, so that individual administration for realizing safe, rational and effective irinotecan medicine is achieved.

The invention discloses an all-trans retinoic acid-camptothecin anticancer drug conjugate as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The structural formula of the all-trans retinoic acid-camptothecin anticancer drug conjugate is shown in a formula (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V) or (VI). The all-trans retinoic acid-camptothecin anticancer drug conjugate has good solubility in Tween, polyoxyethylene castor oil, a Poly(ethylene adipate)-polylactic acid copolymer and a Poly(ethylene adipate)-poly (lactic acid-glycollic acid) copolymer, can be self assembled into nanometer grains in water, can be directly injected or taken orally or processed into other dosage forms. According to the all-trans retinoic acid-camptothecin anticancer drug conjugate disclosed by the invention, as all-trans retinoic acid and SN-38 or camptothecin take synergistic effect, compared with a conjugate only containing one of irinotecan, SN-38 and all-trans retinoic acid, the all-trans retinoic acid-camptothecin anticancer drug conjugate has good tumor suppression effect.

The present invention concerns the methods and compositions for evaluating the risk of ironotecan toxicity in a cancer patient based on the genotype of the patient at position −3156 of the UGT1A1 gene or at any position in linkage disequilibrium with the −3156 variant.