Patent ID: 7407973

Claim:
A method of treating a disorder in an individual, the method comprising administering to an individual who has the disorder an effective amount of pirfenidone or a pirfenidone analog; comparing a post-treatment level of stress-activated protein kinase (SAPK) activity in a biological sample from the individual to a pre-treatment level of SAPK activity; and adjusting the dose of the pirfenidone or pirfenidone analog based on the results of the comparison step; wherein the disorder is selected from the group consisting of fibrotic disorder, carcinoma, sarcoma, leukemia, lymphoma, viral infection, inflammatory disorder and TNF-mediated disorder, and wherein said carcinoma is selected from the group consisting of esophageal carcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, bladder carcinoma, including transitional cell carcinoma which is a malignant neoplasm of the bladder, squamous cell carcinoma, bronchogenic carcinoma, colon carcinoma, colorectal carcinoma, gastric carcinoma, lung carcinoma, including small cell carcinoma and non-small cell carcinoma of the lung, adrenocortical carcinoma, thyroid carcinoma, pancreatic carcinoma, breast carcinoma, ovarian carcinoma, prostate carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, sweat gland carcinoma, sebaceous gland carcinoma, papillary carcinoma, papillary adenocarcinoma, cystadenocarcinoma, medullary carcinoma, renal cell carcinoma, ductal carcinoma in situ or bile duct carcinoma, choriocarcinoma, seminoma, embryonal carcinoma, Wilm's tumor, cervical carcinoma, uterine carcinoma, testicular carcinoma, osteogenic carcinoma, epithelieal carcinoma, and nasopharyngeal carcinoma.