Patent ID: 6602908
Filing Date: 2003-08-05
Classification: A61K

Abstract:
A method for the treatment of carcinoma in a human, comprising:administering to a human a therapeutically effective amount of a fatty acid having somewhere in its carbon chain a chain of four carbons with two conjugated double bonds formed by reacting an ester of a fatty acid having somewhere in its carbon chain a chain of four carbon atoms such that carbon one bears one hydrogen and one hydroxyl group, carbon two bears two hydrogens, and a double bond is positioned between carbon three and four with a tosyl chloride or a mesyl chloride to form a tosylate or mesylate and reacting said tosylate or mesylate of an ester of a fatty acid having somewhere in its carbon chain a chain of four carbon atoms such that carbon one bears one hydrogen and one hydroxyl group, carbon two bears two hydrogens, and a double bond is positioned between carbon three and four with diazabicyclo-undecene followed by saponification.