US Patent:
20060104902, May 18, 2006
Inventors:
Garth Powis - Houston TX, US
Lynn Kirkpatrick - Houston TX, US
Robert Gillies - Tucson AZ, US
Benedicte Jordan - Brussels, BE
International Classification:
A61K 49/00
A61K 39/395
A61K 31/4166
US Classification:
424009100, 424145100, 514398000
Abstract:
The present invention generally relates to methods of preselecting patients for treatment with an anti-VEGF therapy, anti-HIF-1 therapy or anti-thioredoxin therapy. Aspects of the invention combine methods of dynamic contrast enhanced-MRI and diffusion weighted-MRI for the detection of tumor histology. The methodology disclosed herein detects tissue blood volume, tumor vascularity, and abnormal capillary permeability, thereby determining tumor vascularity to determine whether a patient should be administered such therapy.