Patent ID: 8017643

Claim:
A method for treating a mammal, including humans, suffering from cancer, the cancer selected from the group consisting of ovarian cancer, breast cancer and colon cancer, the method comprises administering to said mammal in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a bicycle-pyrazole compound of formula (I), wherein X is NR′, O, S, SO or SO 2 ; each of R and R 1 , being the same or different, is independently a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted group selected from R′, —COR′, —COOR′, —CONHR′, —CONR′R″, —SO 2 R′, —SO 2 NHR′ or —SO 2 NR′R″; wherein each of R′ and R″, being the same or different, is independently selected from hydrogen or an optionally further substituted straight or branched C 1 -C 6 alkyl, aryl or aryl-C 1 -C 6 alkyl group; R 2 is an optionally substituted group selected from R′, —CH 2 OR′ and OR′, wherein R′ is as above defined; and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof with the proviso that such derivatives are not 4-phenyl-5-(phenylsulfonyl)-2H-thieno[2,3-c]pyrazol-3-amine or 5-phenyl-1H-furo[2,3-c]pyrazol-3-amine; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.