Combination therapy comprising zd6474 and a taxane

• US 20050043395A1
• Filed: 11/06/2002
• Published: 02/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Astrazeneca AB (Astrazeneca PLC)
• Original Assignee: Astrazeneca AB (Astrazeneca PLC)
• Inventors: Wedge, Stephen Robert
• Application Number:
  US10/494,704
• Publication Number:
  US 20050043395A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 514/449
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 2300/00 Mixtures or combinations of active ingredients, wherein at least one active ingredient is fully defined in groups A61K31/00 - A61K41/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 31/335 having oxygen as the only ring hetero atom, e.g. fungichromin
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 31/505 Pyrimidines; Hydrogenated pyrimidines, e.g. trimethoprim
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 35/00 Antineoplastic agents
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 9/00 Drugs for disorders of the cardiovascular system

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for the production of an antiangiogenic and/or vascular permeability reducing effect in a warm-blooded animal such as a human, particularly a method for the treatment of a cancer involving a solid tumour, which comprises the administration of ZD6474 in combination with a taxane; to a pharmaceutical composition comprising ZD6474 and a taxane; to a combination product comprising ZD6474 and a taxane for use in a method of treatment of a human or animal body by therapy; to a kit comprising ZD6474 and a taxane; to the use of ZD6474 and a taxane in the manufacture of a medicament for use in the production of an antiangiogenic and/or vascular permeability reducing effect in a warm-blooded animal such as a human which is optionally being treated with ionising radiation.

Claims

1. A method for the production of an antiangiogenic and/or vascular permeability reducing effect in a warm-blooded animal such as a human, which comprises administering to said animal an effective amount of ZD6474 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof before, after or simultaneously with an effective amount of a taxane.

2. A method for the treatment of a cancer in a warm-blooded animal such as a human, which comprises administering to said animal an effective amount of ZD6474 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, before, after or simultaneously with an effective amount of a taxane.

3. A method according to claim 2 for the treatment of a cancer involving a solid tumour.

4. A pharmaceutical composition which comprises ZD6474 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and a taxane in association with a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient or carrier.

5. A kit comprising ZD6474 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a taxane.

6. Use of ZD6474 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and a taxane in the manufacture of a medicament for use in the production of an antiangiogenic and/or vascular permeability reducing effect in a warm-blooded animal such as a human.

7. Use of ZD6474 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and a taxane in the manufacture of a medicament for use in the production of an anti-cancer effect in a warm-blooded animal such as a human.

8. Use according to claim 7 wherein the anti-cancer effect comprises an anti-tumour effect.

9. A method for the production of an antiangiogenic and/or vascular permeability reducing effect in a warm-blooded animal such as a human, which comprises administering to said animal an effective amount of ZD6474 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, before, after or simultaneously with an effective amount of a taxane and before, after or simultaneously with an effective amount of ionising radiation.

10. A method for the treatment of a cancer in a warm-blooded animal such as a human, which comprises administering to said animal an effective amount of ZD6474 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, before, after or simultaneously with an effective amount of a taxane and before, after or simultaneously with an effective amount of ionising radiation.

11. A method according to claim 10 for the treatment of a cancer involving a solid tumour.

12. Use of ZD6474 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and a taxane in the manufacture of a medicament for use in the production of an antiangiogenic and/or vascular permeability reducing effect in a warm-blooded animal such as a human which is being treated with ionising radiation.

13. Use of ZD6474 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and a taxane in the manufacture of a medicament for use in the production of an anti-cancer effect in a warm-blooded animal such as a human which is being treated with ionising radiation.

14. Use according to claim 13 wherein the anti-cancer effect comprises an anti-tumour effect.