Method of treating bone metastasis diseases, medicaments therefore, and a method of predicting the clinical outcome of treating bone metastasis diseases

US10435472B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Merck Patent GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Josef Straub · Seeheim-Jugenheim, DE
• Eike Staub · Darmstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 18, 2015
• Grant date: Oct 8, 2019
• Expiry date: Aug 18, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2800/52
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The instant invention provides for a new method of treating bone metastasis diseases in subjects, wherein said method preferably depends on whether the subject shows certain specific proteins levels in one or more body fluids prior to or during treatment, wherein said treatment comprises the administration of at least one pan αv integrin inhibitor to a subject, a medicament for use in said new methods, and a method of predicting the outcome of a treatment with at least one pan αv integrin inhibitor based on said specific protein levels in one or more body fluids of the subject.