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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2005
Applicant:
Saraswati Vaidyanathan Sukumar, Columbia, MA (US);
Inventor:
Saraswati Vaidyanathan Sukumar, Columbia, MA (US);
Assignee:
Johns Hopkins University School Of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K 48/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides prophylactic and therapeutic methods of treating the ductal epithelium of an exocrine gland, in particular a mammary gland, for disease, in particular cancer. The methods comprise contacting the ductal epithelium of the exocrine gland with an epithelium-destroying gent, preferably by ductal cannulation, so as to realize a prophylactic or therapeutic effect.