Patent ID: 7785621

Claim:
A method of treating a hyperproliferative disorder in a subject in need thereof, comprising feeding said subject an amount effective to treat said hyperproliferative disorder of an edible composition for delivery of a retinide, said composition comprising a dry flowable powder, the dry flowable powder comprising: (a) from 1 to 10 percent by weight of retinide; (b) from 5 to 40 percent by weight of non-acidic lipid matrix composition, said matrix composition comprising at least one fatty acid, at least one monoglyceride, and lysophosphatidylcholine, and said lipid matrix composition containing not more than 4 moles water per mole of lipid matrix; (c) from 1 to 30 percent by weight of sweetener; (d) from 20 to 80 percent by weight flour; and (e) from 0 to 16 percent by weight of a humectant, wherein said hyperproliferative disorders are: i) tumors, cancers and neoplastic tissue selected from the group consisting of breast cancers; osteosarcomas; angiosarcomas; fibrosarcomas; leukemias; lymphomas; sinus tumors; ovarian, uretal, bladder, prostate; colon, esophageal, stomach cancers; lung cancers; myelomas; pancreatic cancers; liver cancers; kidney cancers; endocrine cancers; skin cancers; and brain or central and peripheral nervous (CNS) system tumors, malignant or benign gliomas and neuroblastomas, ii) premalignant, non-neoplastic or non-malignant hyperproliferative disorders selected from the group consisting of myelodysplastic disorders; cervical carcinoma-in-situ; Gardner syndrome, a familial intestinal polyposes; oral leukoplakias; histiocytoses; keloids; hemangiomas; hyperproliferative arterial stenosis, inflammatory arthritis; hyperkeratoses, arthritis that is a papulosquamous eruptions; and warts, infectious mononucleosis and scar formation that are viral induced hyperproliferative diseases.