Patent ID: 6265448
Filing Date: 2001-07-24
Classification: A61K,A61P

Abstract:
A method for preventing prostate carcinogenesis comprising: administering to a mammalian subject having precancerours precursors of prostate adenocarcinoma and not having prostate cancer, a pharmaceutical preparation comprising a chemopreventive agent having the formula: ##STR4##wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, which can be the same or different, are H or OH; R.sub.3 is OCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 NR.sub.4 R.sub.5, wherein R.sub.4 and R.sub.5, which can be the same or different, are H or an alkyl group of 1 to about 4 carbon atoms;and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, or N-oxides, and mixtures thereof.