title: [Protease inhibitors as anticancer chemotherapy--experimental and clinical studies].
abstract: A synthetic protease inhibitor FOY-305 (Foypan) not only inhibited the skin tumorigenesis in mice but also suppressed the growth of autochthonous solid tumor in mice. Furthermore, administration of FOY-305 inhibited the metastasis of Lewis lung carcinoma and colon adenocarcinoma to the lung in mice, experimentally and spontaneously. Clinically, FOY-305 prevented both recurrence and metastasis in the patients who had received many anticancer drugs. In 2 terminal secondary cases, tumor remission and elongation of survival time were observed. Above results suggest a possibility for applying a new type chemotherapy using protease inhibitors.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ohkoshi
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000556:secondary; D000818:Animals; D018827:Carcinoma, Lewis Lung / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000188:drug therapy; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D004952:Esters; D016670:Gabexate / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D006146:Guanidines / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating / Q000187:drug effects*; D011480:Protease Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy
chemical_list: D004952:Esters; D006146:Guanidines; D011480:Protease Inhibitors; C034532:camostat; D016670:Gabexate