Patent ID: 7285536

Claim:
A method for treating a malignancy selected from the group consisting of breast cancer, lung cancer, bone cancer, bladder cancer, rhabdomyosarcoma, angiosarcoma, adenocarcinoma, prostate cancer, colon cancer, squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix, ovarian cancer, malignant fibrous histiocytoma, skin cancer, leiomyosarcoma, astrocytoma, glioma and heptocellular carcinoma in a subject; wherein the method comprises administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of a therapeutic agent to the subject, said therapeutic agent comprising an oligosaccharide, wherein said oligosaccharide has a molecular weight of less than about 3000 daltons and comprises a disaccharide of formula (I) or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt: in which X 1 is hydrogen or sulfate; X 2 is hydrogen or sulfate; and X 3 is sulfate or acetyl, provided that if X 3 is sulfate, then at least one of X 1 or X 2 is sulfate and if X 3 is acetyl, then both X 1 and X 2 are sulfates.