FIELD: medicine, oncology, pharmacy. SUBSTANCE: invention proposes to use arsenic hexoxide (As4O6) as an antitumor medicinal agent and pharmaceutical composition based on thereof. Arsenic hexoxide (As4O6) is a natural chemical substance prepared from Sinsuk and shows the enhanced effectiveness since after elimination of toxic property it exhibits direct cytotoxic effect on tumor cells and inhibits formation of novel blood vessels of tumor formations that results to complete recovery of malignant (cancer) tumors. EFFECT: enhanced antitumor effect, valuable medicinal property. 7 cl, 9 tbl, 62 dwg, 11 ex
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2003-01-20—Published
2000-02-01—Filed