Patent ID: 11497795

Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide an effective and safe medicament having effects for mitigating conditions and/or suppressing onset of a peripheral neuropathy induced by administration of an anti-malignant tumor agent, oxaliplatin, in a human cancer patient receiving an anti-malignant tumor treatment with oxaliplatin. There is provided a medicament for mitigating conditions and/or suppressing onset of a peripheral neuropathy induced by oxaliplatin in an anti-malignant tumor treatment consisting of repetition of a single cycle comprising intravenous administration of oxaliplatin to a human cancer patient and following drug withdrawal, which contains thrombomodulin for intravenously administering 0.06 mg/kg of thrombomodulin once per said single cycle of the treatment on the first day of each said cycle as an active ingredient.