US Patent 8946388 Monoclonal antibodies for treatment of cancer

The present invention provides antibodies useful as therapeutics for treating and/or preventing diseases associated with cells expressing GT468, including tumor-related diseases such as breast Cancer, lung Cancer, gastric Cancer, ovarian Cancer, hepatocellular Cancer, colon Cancer, pancreatic Cancer, esophageal Cancer, head & neck Cancer, kidney Cancer, in particular renal cell Carcinoma, prostate Cancer, liver cancer, melanoma, sarcoma, myeloma, neuroblastoma, placental choriocarcinoma, cervical cancer, and thyroid Cancer, and the metastatic forms thereof. In one embodiment, the rumor disease is metastatic cancer in the lung.