Användning av flavanolignader för framställning av läkemedel med spridningsmotverkande effekt i livmodern, äggstockarna och bröstkörteln

摘要

The invention relates to methods for preventing, inhibiting, or suppressing tumors by administering to a person in need of such treatment a therapeutically effective amount of one or more flavanolignanes, such as silymarin, silybin, silidianin, silicristin, dehydrosilybin, mixtures thereof, or extracts thereof as an antiproliferative. The invention further relates to the antitumor pharmaceutical composition includes a therapeutically effective amount of the flavanolignane selected from the group of silymarin, silybin, silidianin, silicristin, dehydrosilybin, and mixtures thereof, in combination with a different antitumor agent. In another embodiment, the pharmaceutical composition includes a therapeutically effective amount of a flavanolignane selected from the group of silidianin, silicristin, and mixtures thereof, with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or excipient. The compositions and method may be prepared or administered with different antitumoral agents for concurrent or sequential use for treating tumors, such as those typically found in the uterus, ovary, and breast.