Method of treating hyperproliferative diseases using active vitamin D analogues
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1. A method of inhibiting hyperproliferation of malignant or neoplastic cells, comprising treating the cells with an antiproliferative amount of a hypocalcemic hydroxyvitamin D compound having a hydrocarbon moiety at the C24 position, the cells expressing a vitamin D receptor.
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Abstract
Methods for the utilization of hypocalcemic vitamin D analogs to inhibit the hyperproliferation of malignant or neoplastic cells without incidence of hypercalcemia.
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- 1. A method of inhibiting hyperproliferation of malignant or neoplastic cells, comprising treating the cells with an antiproliferative amount of a hypocalcemic hydroxyvitamin D compound having a hydrocarbon moiety at the C24 position, the cells expressing a vitamin D receptor.
- 6. A method of inhibiting the hyperproliferative activity of malignant or neoplastic cells, comprising administering to a patient suffering therefrom, an anitproliferarive amount of a hypocalcemic hydroxyvitamin D compound.
- 25. A method of treating a human to alleviate the pathological effects of breast cancer, colon cancer, testicular cancer, pancreatic cancer, endometrial cancer, small cell and non-small cell cancer of the lung (including squamous, adneocarcinoma and large cell types), squamous cell of the head and neck, bladder, ovarian and cervical cancers, myeloid and lymphocyltic leukemia, lymphoma, hepatic tumors, medullary thyroid carcinoma, multiple myeloma, melanoma, retinoblastoma or sarcomas of the soft tissue and bone, comprising administering to the human an therapeutic amount of a hypocalcemic hydroxyvitamin D compound.
- 29. A method of enhancing the antiproliferative effect of a cytotoxic agent in a patient with a disease in need of treatment by a cytotoxic agent, comprising administering to the patient a therapeutic amount of hypocalcemic vitamin D compound and the cytotoxic agent.
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36. A method of inducing differentiation in malignant or neoplastic cells, comprising treating to the cells with a prodifferentiative amount of a hypocalcemic vitamin D compound.
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37. A method of treating in a subject tumor or neoplasm that expresses a vitamin D receptor, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of hypocalcemic vitamin D compound sufficient to raise a blood level of vitamin D to a sufficiently supraphysiological level for a sufficient period of time to inhibit growth of the tumor or neoplasm without causing hypercalcemia in the subject.
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