PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION FOR INHIBITING CANCER RECURRENCE OR METASTASIS

摘要

PURPOSE: A pharmaceutical composition for suppressing cancer recurrence or metastasis is provided to reduce side effects and to enable effective treatment. CONSTITUTION: A pharmaceutical composition for suppressing cancer recurrence or metastasis contains 10-4000 mg of 2-deoxy-D-gluscose as an active ingredient. The pharmaceutical composition contains a biguanide-based therapeutic agent for treating diabetes or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and 2-deoxy-D-gluscose as active ingredients. The therapeutic agent is metformin, phenformin, or buformin. The pharmaceutically acceptable salt of metformin is hydrochloride or acetate. The pharmaceutical composition is an oral formulation or a parenteral formulation. The pharmaceutical composition additionally contains an anticancer agent as an active ingredient. The cancer is colon cancer or breast cancer. [Reference numerals] (AA) Mammosphere formation; (BB) Hydrochloride of metformin; (CC) Hydrochloride of metformin + 2-DG