Novartis Ag

Peter Lassota

Ying-Nan Pan Chen

Christopher Turchik Jagoe

Alexander Wallace Wood

The invention relates to a combination which comprises (a) a cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor ('COX-2 inhibitor') and (b) a histone deacetylase inhibitor ('HDAI') for simultaneous, concurrent, separate or sequential use, especially for use in the treatment of pre-malignant colon lesions or a colon cancer or other malignancies in a mammal, particularly a human. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such a combination and to a method of treating pre-malignant colon lesions (e.g. polyps) and colon cancer, as well as other malignancies, in a mammal, particularly a human, with such a combination. The present invention further also relates to a commercial package or product comprising such a combination.

Cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor/histone deacetylase inhibitor combination

The present invention relates to methods for treating multidrug resistant cells, preferably multidrug resistant cancer cells with discodermolide. Discodermolide is found to be effective in limiting the growth of otherwise growth unregulated cells having tubulin mutations and in promoting phosphorylation of the oncogene RAF-1.

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