US Patent Issued to TORAY INDUSTRIES on July 21 for "Methods for treating CAPRIN-1 expressing cancers" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,772, issued on July 21, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).

"Methods for treating CAPRIN-1 expressing cancers" was invented by Fumiyoshi Okano (Kamakura, Japan) and Daisuke Akazawa (Kamakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a medicament for treatment and/or prevention of cancer. The present invention provides a medicament for treatment and/or prevention of cancer in a cancer patient with a previous history of another cancer treatment, comprising an antibody or a fragment thereof having an immunological reactivity with CAPRIN-1 protein, and a pyrimidine-based drug and ci...