THERAPEUTIC APPLICATION OF AN ANTI-INVASIVE COMPOUND

摘要

Tumor invasion and metastasis is the most life threatening aspect of cancer. Invasion and metastasis is a multistep process. Cellular functions required for invasion are attachment, locomotion and directed migration. Regulation of these processes may be independent of cell growth. A carboxylamino-imidazole compound was found to be potent inhibitor of tumor cell attachment, motility, invasion, proliferation, and metastasis. This compound and equivalents thereof constitute a cancer treatment agent of particular use in the treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis of ovarian cancer.