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Claims for Patent: 9,539,257


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Summary for Patent: 9,539,257
Title:Method of treating cancer
Abstract: Methods are provided of treating a human for cancer comprising administering at least one dose of lapatinib, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or composition thereof, to a patient, wherein said patient does not have one or more allelic polymorphisms selected from the group of: HLA-DQA1*0201, HLA-DQB1*0202, and HLADRB1*0701. Patients may also be free of genotypes in TNXB; rs12153855 and/or rs17207923.
Inventor(s): Bing; Nan (Research Triangle Park, NC), Briley; Linda Perry (Research Triangle Park, NC), Budde; Laura R. (Research Triangle Park, NC), Cox; Charles J. (Stevenage, GB), Spraggs; Colin F. (Stevenage, GB)
Assignee: Novartis AG (CH)
Application Number:14/634,052
Patent Claims:1. A method of treating a human for breast cancer comprising: (a) obtaining a biological sample from said human; (b) detecting whether an allelic polymorphism at HLA-DQA1*0201 is present in said biological sample; (c) determining that said human does not have an allelic polymorphism at HLA-DQA1*0201 based on detecting the absence of said allelic polymorphism in step (b); and (d) administering at least one dose of lapatinib or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or composition thereof to said human, thereby treating the human for breast cancer.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein lapatinib, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or composition thereof, is administered to said human as monotherapy.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said lapatinib, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or composition thereof, is co-administered with at least one other anti-cancer agent.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein said at least one other anti-cancer agent is selected from the group of: trastuzumab, capecitabine, paclitaxel, carboplatin, pazopanib and letrozole.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising determining that said human is not DQ2.2. seropositive where DQ2.2 is not detected to be present in said human.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said human does not show significant elevation in alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and/or total bilirubin (TBL) after the administration of at least one dose of lapatinib, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or composition thereof.

Details for Patent 9,539,257

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Genentech, Inc. HERCEPTIN trastuzumab For Injection 103792 09/25/1998 ⤷  Try a Trial 2039-02-26
Genentech, Inc. HERCEPTIN trastuzumab For Injection 103792 02/10/2017 ⤷  Try a Trial 2039-02-26
Genentech, Inc. HERCEPTIN HYLECTA trastuzumab and hyaluronidase-oysk Injection 761106 02/28/2019 ⤷  Try a Trial 2039-02-26
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