CANCER REMEDY CONTAINING ANTIBODY AGAINST PEPTIDE ENCODED BY EXON-17 OF PERIOSTIN

摘要

A medicinal composition for treating cancer which comprises an antibody against a peptide region encoded by Exon-17 of periostin. More specifically speaking, a composition for treating cancer which comprises an anti-periostin antibody capable of recognizing a splicing variant of periostin having an anti-cell adhesion effect, which is expressed specifically in the interstitium of a tissue under reconstruction such as a cancer tissue, or a diagnostic method and a diagnostic for cancer with the use of the anti-periostin antibody as described above.