CHELATED 8-HYDROXYQUINOLINE FOR THE TREATMENT OF EPITHELIAL LESIONS

摘要

Oxinates including 8-hydroxyquinoline and a heavy metal are topically applied to epidermal lesions for therapeutic effect. The therapeutic composition demonstrates selective toxicity with a therapeutic index of one-hundred percent on human lung cancer, breat cancer, melanoma, venereal warts, male veruoca warts, lesions produced by human papilloma virus, basal cell carcinoma, solarkeratosis, and Kaposi's sarcoma. In veterinary applications where dogs, cats, and horses are the patients, the composition shows a one-hundred percent therapeutic index with selective toxicity against eye cancer, sarcoids, sarcoma, malignant melanoma, rectal adenoma, histiocytoma, and sebaceous adenoma.