Drug compositions and their use in treating human or other mammalian patients
First Claim
1. drug composition for use in the treatment of a disease, such as cancer, defined by a multitude of drug units composed of:
- (a) a first drug unit component which is targeted to a specific antigen of a disease existing within a living being,(b) a second drug unit component containing at least one cell destroying killer cell,(c) said first drug unit component and said second drug unit component defining a unitary assembly wherein a portion of the surface of said first component extends outwardly from said assembly and is free to engage and become attached to antigens existing within a living being to which said drug unit is administered.
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Abstract
Drug compositions formed as individual units, a multitude of which are employed as one or more doses, to reduce or aleviate cancer in a living being by targeting to and destroying cancer cells. In a preferred form, each drug unit is formed of an antibody, such as a monoclonal antibody targeted to a specific type of antigen, such as defined by a specific form of cancer, which antibody is united with or bonded to a white blood cell such as a macrophage or lymphocyte, preferably one which has been treated or activated with an immune system activator of a class referred to as lymphokines. One of such activators which may be so employed, is interleukin-2, which, in one embodiment, forms part of the drug unit. The drug unit may also include a microcapsule containing one or more of such lymphokine activated killer cells encapsulated therein and releasable therefrom, preferably after the drug unit has been targeted to a cancer cell or tumor by the antibody attached thereto. In a particular form, both the antibody and one or more of the white blood cells, lymphocytes or macrophages, cooperate in attacking the cancer cell or cells at the targeted site and the procedure progresses as cancer cells are destroyed exposing other cancer cells to additional drug units which feed to the cancer site in blood flow, in a manner to totally destroy the tumor or put into regression.
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1. drug composition for use in the treatment of a disease, such as cancer, defined by a multitude of drug units composed of:
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(a) a first drug unit component which is targeted to a specific antigen of a disease existing within a living being, (b) a second drug unit component containing at least one cell destroying killer cell, (c) said first drug unit component and said second drug unit component defining a unitary assembly wherein a portion of the surface of said first component extends outwardly from said assembly and is free to engage and become attached to antigens existing within a living being to which said drug unit is administered. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A drug composition for use in treating a tumor, such as a malignancy, formed of a multitude of drug units, which drug units comprise:
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(a) a killer cell in the form of a lymphocyte rendered deadly to cells of a malignancy when in contact (b) encapsulating means in the form of a wall of material surrounding said killer cell, (c) an antibody having a surface portion configured to attach said antibody to a cell of said malignancy, (d) said antibody being bound to the outside surface of said wall surrounding said killer cell wherein a sufficient portion of the surface of said antibody protrudes from said wall to permit said antibody to target and become attached to a cell of said tumor, and (e) means for releasing said killer cell from encapsulation by said encapsulating means to permit it to attack a cell of a malignancy adjacent said drug unit after said antibody has become targeted to said malignancy. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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17. A method of treating a tumor, such as malignancy, existing in a living being comprising:
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(a) forming a drug composition of a multitude of drug units, which drug units are composed of a biological element targeted to an intracellular marker substance, produced by or associated with a tumor to be treated, and at least one killer cell, such as a phage contained by said drug unit and carried thereby, (b) administering a dose of said drug composition to a living being having a tumor to which said antibody is targetable and permitting drug units of said dose to target to respective portions of said tumor by permitting the antibodies thereof to attach to respective cells of said tumor, (c) after said drug units become targeted adjacent the tumor, releasing the killer cells thereof from the drug units and permitting said killer cells to attack respective cells of the tumor and to destroy the cells they attack, (d) providing a sufficient number of said drug units administered to the body of said living being to effect the destruction of said tumor under the action of killer cells. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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