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Last Updated: April 19, 2024

Claims for Patent: 10,143,747


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Summary for Patent: 10,143,747
Title:Breast cancer therapeutics
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of treating or preventing cancer in a subject comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a RANKL inhibitor to said patient.
Inventor(s): Penninger; Josef (Vienna, AT), Schramek; Daniel (Vienna, AT)
Assignee: IMBA--INSTITUT FUR MOLEKULARE BIOTECHNOLOGIE GMBH (Vienna, AT)
Application Number:13/825,655
Patent Claims:1. A method of delaying the onset of a primary breast or mammary cancer in a human patient comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of anti-RANKL antibody to said patient; wherein the patient does not have cancer, wherein the patient is a pre-menopausal female at risk of developing the primary breast or mammary cancer, and wherein the patient does not show bone loss.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the patient has received one or more treatments selected from treatment with a female sexual hormone, hormone replacement therapy and treatment with a hormone contraceptive.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the anti-RANKL antibody is administered in combination with a therapy of female sexual hormones.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the anti-RANKL antibody is administered in a pharmaceutical composition together with a hormone or derivative thereof selected from estrogen, progesterone, a progestin and a hormone contraceptive.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the composition further comprises a pharmaceutically acceptable diluent, carrier, solubilizer, emulsifier, preservative and/or adjuvant.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the anti-RANKL antibody is administered together with a chemotherapeutic agent for prevention of breast or mammary cancer.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the primary breast or mammary cancer does not overexpress HER2/neu.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said anti-RANKL antibody is denosumab.

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