Method of targeting tumors in humans
CA 1267840 C · Owner: Vestar, Inc. · Inventors: Presant, Cary Arnet; Proffitt, Richard Thomas
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A method is provided for delivering micellular particles containing a radiolabelled marker to tumors within humans . The micellular particles are less than approximately 2000.ANG. and incorporate essentially chemically pure phospholoipid molecules in their external surface. Human patients given intravenous injections of such radiolabelled micellular particles showed tumors imaged by such method, without developing symptoms related to the micellular particles.
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Granted April 17, 1990. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended April 17, 2007.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.