METHOD FOR TREATING PATIENTS WITH GLIAL CEREBRAL TUMOR Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: medicine, neurooncology.

SUBSTANCE: one should carry out chemotherapy and irradiation till radical dosage. Moreover, 2-3 d before the onset of radiation therapy and during the whole course of irradiation one should indicate the intake of indometacin at daily dosage being 300 mg, and 8-14 d before the end of therapy course or the stage of radiation therapy it is necessary to conduct chemotherapeutic cycle with vincristine at total dosage being 4 mG and lomustine at total dosage 160-240 mg. At performing a split course of irradiation the intake of indometacin should be indicated between the stages. The innovation enables to increase radio sensitivity of malignant tumor, suppress angiogenesis, proliferative activity and increased cytotoxic activity of chemopreparations.

EFFECT: higher efficiency of therapy.

1 cl, 3 ex