Abstract: A method for inhibiting, reducing and/or reducing the risk of cancer metastasis in a subject, including identifying a subject as in need of inhibiting, reducing and/or reducing the risk of cancer metastasis, by identifying the subject as having a cancer with an elevated or up-regulated level of S100A4 transcription compared to a level in non-oncogenic cells, and administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of niclosamide or a niclosamide derivate, thereby inhibiting or reducing S100A4 transcription, so as to inhibit, reduce and/or reduce the risk of cancer metastasis, wherein 15 to 400 mg niclosamide or niclosamide derivate is administered per kg body weight of the subject (mg/kg), 1 or 2 times daily.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical combination, includes an inhibitor of the Wnt/?-catenin signaling pathway and an inhibitor of MACC1. One combination includes an inhibitor of S100A4 as a Wnt-signaling inhibitor, preferably niclosamide, and a statin or MEK1 inhibitor as an inhibitor of MACC1. A pharmaceutical composition can include the combination. The combination or composition can be used in the treatment of a tumor disease, such as a solid tumor, and/or for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of tumor metastasis.

Abstract: A method for inhibiting, reducing and/or reducing the risk of cancer metastasis in a subject, including identifying a subject as in need of inhibiting, reducing and/or reducing the risk of cancer metastasis, by identifying the subject as having a cancer with an elevated or up-regulated level of S100A4 transcription compared to a level in non-oncogenic cells, and administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of niclosamide or a niclosamide derivate, thereby inhibiting or reducing S100A4 transcription, so as to inhibit, reduce and/or reduce the risk of cancer metastasis, wherein 15 to 400 mg niclosamide or niclosamide derivate is administered per kg body weight of the subject (mg/kg), 1 or 2 times daily.

Abstract: A combination of mismatch repair (MMR) and Metastasis Associated in Colon Cancer 1 (MACC1) gene expression status of the patient serve as a basis for risk stratification of early stage colon cancer patients. Patients with defective MMR (dMMR) status have improved survival and do not benefit from 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) therapies. In contrast, patients with a proficient MMR (pMMR) status have a higher risk of recurrence and worse survival. The pMMR patients are then further stratified on the basis of MACC1 gene expression. Patients with a pMMR status and a low MACC1 expression have a favorable prognosis similar to patients having a dMMR status, whereas patients having a pMMR status and high MACC1 expression have a less favorable prognosis.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of diagnosis and prognostication of a hepatobiliary tumor, the method comprising the step of determining expression of MACC1 polypeptide or of a nucleic acid encoding said MACC1 polypeptide in a biological sample.

Abstract: The invention relates to niclosamide and derivates thereof, which effectively inhibit transcription of the S100A4 gene, resulting in inhibition and/or reduction of S100A4-induced cell motility, invasiveness, metastasis and proliferation of human cancer cells.

Abstract: Transcript quantification of the metastasis progressor S100A4 is performed in body fluids. Methods, assays and kits relying on this quantification are disclosed that have diagnostic and/or prognostic applications in colorectal and gastric cancer patients.

Abstract: The present invention refers to the nucleic acid sequence encoding for the polypeptide of 7a5/Prognostin and to its uses, in particular for the tumour diagnostics and tumour therapy of metastasising tumours.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a vector system that allows one to induce expression of therapeutically relevant genes in mammalian cells. Such a vector system may be useful for medicine and in the pharmaceutical industry. A vector comprises base structures suitable for expression in mammalian cells as well as either the whole of or parts of the gene promoter of human Major Vault Protein (MVP), also known as LRP (Lung Resistance Protein) as well as a gene encoding a therapeutic protein or non-translated RNA. As the MVP promoter is inducible by therapy (for example, but not limited to, chemotherapy or hyperthermia), the vector system provides combinations of therapeutic methods with gene therapy in a controlled fashion, resulting in more efficient treatment of tumor diseases.

Abstract: The present invention refers to the nucleic acid sequence encoding for the polypeptide of 7a5/Prognostin and to its uses, in particular for the tumour diagnostics and tumour therapy of metastasising tumours.

Abstract: The efficiency of the chemotherapy of malign diseases is limited by resistances vis-à-vis the cytostatics used, which resistances are mediated by a plurality of different mechanisms that proceed at the same time or sequentially. The invention relates to the use of a method of establishing resistance profiles using RNA from tissues or cell lines by way of real-time RT PCR technology (carried out, for example, on the “Light Cycler” of Roche Diagnostics GmbH). The invention allows a quantitative analysis of the expressions of different genes that are associated with the development or the intensification or the reduction of resistances. Based thereon it is, for example, possible to establish individual patient resistance profiles that form the molecular-biological base for the selection of appropriate cytostatics before and also during the particular tumor chemotherapy. The inventive method also allows a prognosis of the chances of success (response) of certain chemotherapeutical regimes.

Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a therapy-regulatable vector system of the gene promoter of the human lung resistance protein (LRP/MVP). This vector system for the therapy-inducible expression of therapeutically relevant genes in mammalian cells shall be used in the pharmaceutical industry and in medicine.

Abstract: The invention concerns a cytotoxic, MDR-associated substance for producing a therapeutic agent for tumor therapy, which is characterized by a) the tumor cells of a tumor patient are chemosensitized with a cytokine, b) the scope of expression of one or more MDR-associate genes (e.g. mdrl, Mrp, Lrp) in the tumor tissues of the patient is determined according to the beginning of the cytokine treatment, c) the time domain is determined, in which the expression of one or more MDR-associate genes is substantially reduced by the cytokine treatment, d) the patient is treated in the determined time domain (“therapeutic window”) with a therapeutically effective amount of a cytotoxic, MDR-associated substance, the effectiveness of which is influenced (enhanced) by the expression of one or more MDR-associate genes. The use of said substance leads to an improved tumor therapy.

Abstract: A vector for expression of relevant therapeutic genes in mammalian cells which utilizes the mdr promoter, and optionally, the mdr enhancer, operably linked to the therapeutic gene.