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Abstract

The invention discloses a Doxorubicin combined medicine, which comprises Doxorubicin, FEN Iprotein inhibitor and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The invention also discloses the application of the combined medicines in preparing medicines for treating cancer, especially colon cancer. Experiments prove that the combination of Doxorubicin and FEN Iinhibitor SC13 can obviously enhance the therapeutic effect of Doxorubicin, obviously inhibit the proliferation of colon cancer cells and induce DNA damage and apoptosis after the combination. More importantly, combined use enhances the anti-tumor effect in mouse model, and reduces the dosage and toxic side effects of Doxorubicin. Therefore, Doxorubicin combined with FEN Iprotein inhibitor has a promising future in the prevention and treatment of colon cancer.

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Doxorubicin combined medicine and its application
The invention is described in the following statement:-
Doxorubicin combined medicine and its application
TECHNICAL FIELD
The invention belongs to the biomedical technology, and in particular relates to a
Doxorubicin combined medicine and an application of the combined medicine in
preparing an anti-tumor medicine.
BACKGROUND
At present, the incidence and mortality of colon cancer are very high all over the world.
Surgical resection is still the most effective means of colon cancer at present, and
chemotherapy is one of the important adjunctive treatments. Doxorubicin (or
Adriamycin) has been one of the most successful drugs in cancer chemotherapy since its
discovery. It is an anthracycline antibiotic that promotes the death of tumor cells by
inducing DNA damage. Doxorubicin has been proved that it can be inserted into DNA to
make the replication and transcription process of DNA abnormal so as to lead to double
stranded DNA breakage (DSB).However, Doxorubicin has toxic and side effects on
human body, which greatly limits its application in clinical treatment.
DNA fragment endonucleasel FENi is a metal nuclease with structural specificity.
Unlike other restriction endonucleases, its substrate recognized is independent of
sequence, and it only recognizes specific DNA structure. In addition to endonuclease
(FEN) activity, there are exonuclease (EXO) activity and gap endonuclease (GEN)
activity. Because of these three activities, FEN Iplays an extremely important role in
many DNA metabolic pathways, such as DNA fragment degradation, telomere stability maintenance, long patch base excision repair (LP-BER) and subsequent primer removal in the chain. FEN Iplays a key role in maintaining the stability and integrity of genome by participating in DNA replication and repair. There is abnormally high expression of
FEN Iin various tumor cells.
Doxorubicin is a major anticancer drug for colon cancer, which has been used in clinical
treatment for many years, but its therapeutic effect is limited due to drug resistance of
cancer cells. Long-term Doxorubicin treatment usually leads to cancer cells' resistance to
treatment, and can cause serious cardiotoxicity. In the past decades, researchers have
been studying how to overcome chemotherapy tolerance and drug resistance. Other anti
tumor drugs, such as paclitaxel, camptothecin, cisplatin, etc., and radiotherapy also have
side effects in varying degrees.
SUMMARY
Aim of the invention
Aiming at the problems existing in the prior art, the present application provides an
Doxorubicin combined medicine and an application of the combined medicine in
preparing a medicine for treating cancer, especially colon cancer.
Technical scheme
The Doxorubicin combined medicine comprises Doxorubicin, a FEN Iprotein inhibitor
and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
The FEN Iprotein inhibitor is preferably SC13. See patent 201710023851.1 for the
preparation method of SC13.
The application of the Doxorubicin combined medicine in preparing the medicine for
treating cancer is also within the protection scope of the application.
Furthermore, the Doxorubicin combined medicine is preferably used for preparing drugs
for treating colon cancer.
Beneficial effects
The experiments prove that the combined use of Doxorubicin and FENIinhibitor SC13
can obviously enhance the therapeutic effect of Doxorubicin, and obviously inhibit the
proliferation of colon cancer cells and induce DNA damage and apoptosis after combined
use. More importantly, combined use enhanced the anti-tumor effect in mouse model, and
reduced the dosage and toxic side effects of Doxorubicin. Therefore, Doxorubicin
combined with FEN Iprotein inhibitor has a promising future in the prevention and
treatment of colon cancer.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES
Fig. 1 shows the high expression of FENI in colon cancer cells.
Fig. 2 shows the effect of different chemotherapeutic drugs combined with SC13 on cell
proliferation detected by CCK8. When the cells were treated with drug concentration
gradient, CCK8 detection was performed after dosing 48 hours.
A. detection of the effect of camptothecin alone or combined with SC13 on SW480
proliferation.
B. detection of the effect of paclitaxel alone or combined with SC13 on SW480
proliferation;
C. detection of the effect of carboplatin alone or combined with SC13 on SW480
proliferation;
D. detection of the effect of 5-FU alone or 5-FU combined with SC13 on SW480
proliferation;
E. detection of the effect of Doxorubicin alone or combined with SC13 on the SW480
and NCM460 proliferation;
F. detection of the effect of adding solvent, SC13, Doxorubicin or drug combination on
SW480 proliferation in 5 days;
G. detection of the effect of Doxorubicin alone or Doxorubicin combined with SC13 on
the proliferation of HCT-8.
H. detection of the effect of adding solvent, SC13, Doxorubicin or drug combination on
HCT-8 proliferation in 5 days;
Fig. 3 shows the effect of SC13 combined with Doxorubicin on cell proliferation in
SW480 cells detected by cell imaging and cloning experiments.
A. cell imaging of drug-treated cells for 48 hours;
B. cell clone formation ability under different drug treatments-500 cells were inoculated
into each well of the 6-well plate, and drugs were added after the cells adhered the next
day. After drug treatment for 48 hours, they were replaced with fresh medium without
drugs to continue culture;
C. quantitative map of clone formation;
Fig. 4 shows the influence of drug treatment on SW480 cell proliferation activity detected
by immunofluorescence.
A. The influence of SC13 and Doxorubicin alone or in combination with drugs on cell
proliferation detected by Ki67. The concentration of SC13 and Doxorubicin is 20tM and
0.24M, respectively. After drug treatment for 24 hours, perform the detection. And the
scale in the figure is 20 m.
B. The effects of SC13 and Doxorubicin alone or in combination with drugs on DNA
synthesis of new cells detected by EdU. The concentration of SC13 and Doxorubicin is
tM and 0.24M, respectively. After treatment for 24h, perform the detection. And the
scale in the figure is 20 m.
Fig. 5 shows the detection of cell cycle-related protein expression after different drug
treatments.
A. The concentration of SC13 is 20[M, the concentration of Doxorubicin is 0.2[tM, and
the protein expression is detected by Western Blot after 24 hours of drug treatment, with
Vinculin as the internal reference of protein expression;
B. Immunofluorescence detection of CDK6 expression changes in different drug
treatments, with the scale of 20 m;
C. The expression of Cyclin D1 under different drug treatments was detected by
immunofluorescence, and the scale in the picture was 20 m;
Fig. 6 is the detection of DNA damage under different drug treatments. The concentration
of SC13 is 20[M, of Doxorubicin is 0.2[tM, and it is detected after 24 hours of drug
treatment;
A.Western Blot was used to detect the expression of yH2AX under different drug
treatments, and Tubulin was used as the internal reference of protein expression.
B. Immunofluorescence was used to detect the expression of yH2AX under different drug
treatments. The scale was 20[m,
C. The statistical diagram of yH2AX foci point.
D. The expression of 53BP1 under different drug treatments detected by
immunofluorescence, with the scale of 20 m.
E. The statistical diagram of 53BP1 foci point.
F Chromosome deformity and breakage condition under different drug treatments.
G. The statistical diagram of chromosome breakage.
Fig. 7 shows the apoptosis of SW480 cells treated with different drugs.
A. The apoptosis of cells treated with SC13 and Doxorubicin alone or combined with
drugs detected by FACS;
B. Statistics of apoptosis rate;
C. The expression of several typical apoptosis proteins in cells treated with different drug
groups, detected by Western Blot, with GAPDH protein expression as internal
reference;
D. The expression of Cleaved-caspase3 in cells under different drug treatments detected
by immunofluorescence staining. The scale in the figure is 20 m;
Fig. 8 shows the antitumor effect of Doxorubicin combined with SC13 in nude mice.
A. The growth of tumor volume in nude mice under different drug treatments;
B. The photos of tumor tissues cut off after drug treatment;
C. Weighing records of cut tumor tissues after drug treatment;
D. HE, Ki67, yH2AX, 53BP1, Cleaved-caspase3, TUNEL staining of paraffin sections of
tumors in different drug treatment groups, with the scale of 250 m;
Fig. 9 shows the effect of different drug treatments on homologous recombination repair
of cells and the change of related protein expression. The concentration of SC13 is 20[M,
the concentration of Doxorubicin is 0.2[tM, and the detection is carried out after 24 hours
of drug treatment.
A. Homologous recombination repair ability under different drug treatments detected in
U2OS cells;
B. The expression of Rad51 and BRCA1 protein under different drug treatments detected
in SW480 cells,with the protein expression of Vinculin as an internal reference;
C. BRCA1 expression in SW480 tumor tissue slices under different drug treatments
detected by immunohistochemical, with the scale of 250 m;
D. The protein expression of Rad51 and BRCA1 under different drug treatments
detected in HCT-8 cells, and taking the protein expression of Vinculin as an internal
reference;
Fig. 10 shows the sensitivity of cells to SC13 after BRCA1 knockdown in SW480 and
HCT-8 respectively.
A.Western Blot was used to detect the knock-down efficiency of BRCA1 by lentivirus in
SW480 cells, and the protein expression of Vinculin was used as an internal reference;
B. The effects of SC13 on cell proliferation of wild-type SW480 cells and SW480 cells
with BRCA1 knockdown were detected by CCK8 after 48 hours.
C. Western Blot was used to detect the knock-down efficiency of BRCA1 by lentivirus in
HCT-8 cells, and the protein expression of Vinculin was used as internal reference;
D. The proliferation of wild-type HCT-8 cells and BRCA1-knocked-down HCT-8 cells
was affected by SC13, and was detected by CCK8 after 48 hours.
DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The application will be described in detail with specific examples below. In this
invention, SC13, a small molecule inhibitor for FEN Iprotein, and Doxorubicin, a
chemotherapy drug, are used. The materials and reagents used in the following examples
can be obtained from commercial sources unless otherwise specified. This example
mainly shows that SC13 can enhance the sensitivity of colon cancer cells to Doxorubicin,
which provides a new example of drug combination for clinical cancer treatment.
The application will be described in detail with specific examples below. In this
invention, SC13, a small molecule inhibitor for FEN Iprotein, and Doxorubicin, a
chemotherapy drug, are used. The materials and reagents used in the following examples
can be obtained from commercial sources unless otherwise specified. This example
mainly shows that SC13 can enhance the sensitivity of colon cancer cells to Doxorubicin,
which provides a new example of drug combination for clinical cancer treatment.
Origin of cells: HCT8, SW480 and NCM460 cells are all from American type culture
collection bank (ATCC).
The cells used in this study are human colon cancer SW480 cells and HCT-8 cells, which
are cultured in DMEM medium. In addition, normal human intestinal epithelial cells
NCM460 were used and cultured in 1640 medium. Cell culture media were purchased
from Gibco Company, and 10% fetal bovine serum and 1% penicillin and streptomycin
were added before cell culture.
Drug source: Doxorubicin was purchased from Selleck company; see patent
201710023851.1 for the preparation method of FENI inhibitor SC13.
The FEN Iinhibitor SC13 powder was prepared with DMSO to an initial concentration of
mM, and the Doxorubicin powder purchased from Selleck company was prepared with
physiological saline to an initial concentration of 20mM. When using, the fixed
concentration of SC13 added to the culture medium was 20uM, and the Doxorubicin
concentration gradient (0.luM, 0.2uM, 0.5uM, luM) was used to find the best
combination effect which was combined used with SC13(20uM) to make a time gradient
curve for 1-5 days.
Example 1 Expression of FENI in two kinds of colon cancer cells and normal intestinal
epithelial cells
Select human colon cancer cells SW480, HCT-8 and human normal intestinal epithelial
cells NCM460, culture them respectively, collect samples to extract proteins when the
cells grow well, and detect the expression of FEN Iin the three cells by Western blot,
with Vinculin as the internal reference of protein expression. Results as shown in fig. 1,
we found that the FENI protein expression levels in SW480 and HCT-8 colon cancer
cells were higher than those in NCM460 normal intestinal epithelial cells, which
suggested that FEN Iwas related to the colon cancer occurrence and development.
Example 2 Killing ability of several different chemotherapeutic drugs in combination
with SC13
The FEN Iinhibitor SC13 was added to SW480 and HCT-8 cells respectively, but it was
not found that SC13 alone could significantly inhibit the growth of colon cancer cells (as
shown in fig. 2, fig. 3 and fig. 4).
A series of chemotherapeutic drugs were used in combination with SC13 in colon cancer
SW480 cells, and CCK8 detection was used to detect the effects of different
chemotherapeutic drugs combined with SC13 on cell proliferation. CCK8 detection was
carried out after drug concentration gradient treatment for 48 hours.
The results are shown in fig. 2, wherein A is the effect of camptothecin alone or
camptothecin combined with SC13 on SW480 proliferation. B is the effect of paclitaxel
alone or combined with SC13 on SW480 proliferation. C is the effect of carboplatin alone
or combined with SC13 on SW480 proliferation .And D is the effect of 5-FU alone or 5
FU combined with SC13 on SW480 proliferation. Therefore, SC13 has no obvious
sensitizing effect on camptothecin (Figure.2A), paclitaxel (Figure. 2B), carboplatin
(Figure.2C) and 5-FU (fig. 2D).
When we used SC13 in combination with Doxorubicin, we found that the killing ability
of Doxorubicin in combination with SC13 was obviously stronger than that of
Doxorubicin alone at the same concentration, which indicated that SC13 had a strong
drug sensitizing effect on Doxorubicin in SW480 cells (Figure. 2E). Then, we did the
same drug combination treatment in normal intestinal epithelial cells NCM460, and
found that the sensitizing effect of SC13 on Doxorubicin in NCM460 cells was weaker
than that in SW480 cells (Figure 2E, the difference between two curves of NCM460 cells
was obviously smaller than that of SW480 cells), which indicated that SC13 combined with Doxorubicin had less toxicity to normal cells. In the previous experiments, it was detected after drug addition for 48 hours, in order to verify the effect of drug treatment for a long time, we recorded SW480 cells treated with SC13 and Doxorubicin alone or combined with drugs for 5 days. The results also showed that the survival rate of cells treated with low concentration Doxorubicin alone still exceeded 50% after 5 days, while most of the cells were killed the next day when combined with drugs, and basically all the cells died in 5 days (Figure 2F). In addition, we detected that SC13 also has obvious chemosensitization effect on Doxorubicin in another colon cancer cell HCT-8 (Figure.
2G, Figure. 2H).
Example 3
(1) Inhibitory effect of Doxorubicin combined with SC13 on the growth of SW480 cells
Through previous screening, inoculating cells in 96-well plate, we found a very effective
drug combination scheme of Doxorubicin and SC13 by CCK8 method. We cultured
SW480 cells in a 6-well plate with the same inoculation amount per well, and treated the
cells with SC13 and Doxorubicin alone or in combination with the two drugs. The results
of cell imaging showed that SC13 alone had no obvious killing effect on cells, but at the
same concentration of Doxorubicin, the killing effect of adding SC13 was obviously
stronger than that of Doxorubicin alone (Figure.3A). Clonal formation experiment further
verified that the combination of SC13 and Doxorubicin had an extremely obvious
inhibitory effect on cell growth and clone formation ability (Figure. 3B). Figure. 3C is a
statistical result of clone formation.
(2) The effect of Doxorubicin combined with SC13 on proliferation activity and new
DNA synthesis ability of SW480 cells
Earlier, we found that Doxorubicin combined with SC13 had a strong cell killing effect
on colon cancer cells through CCK8 and clone formation experiments. We suspect that
this is because the cell proliferation was significantly inhibited after drug treatment.
Firstly, we detected Ki67, a cell proliferation marker, by immunofluorescence, and found
that when Doxorubicin alone treated cells, the fluorescence intensity decreased and cell
proliferation was inhibited. However, the fluorescence intensity of Ki67 decreased more
obviously when the drugs were used in combination, and the inhibitory effect on cell
proliferation was stronger (Figure. 4A). EdU staining, another marker of cell
proliferation, showed that Doxorubicin combined with SC13 significantly inhibited the
synthesis of newborn DNA in SW480 cells, and then had a strong inhibitory effect on cell
proliferation (Figure. 4B).
(3) The combined use of Doxorubicin and SC13 can block the cell cycle of SW480 cells
When Doxorubicin is combined with SC13, the inhibition of cell proliferation indicates
that the cell cycle may be blocked. Next, we examined the expression changes of a series
of cell cycle-related proteins under different drug treatments. The results showed that the
expressions of CDK4, CDK6 and Cyclin D1 decreased significantly when Doxorubicin
was used in combination with SC13. The reason was that the expression of p21 protein,
the inhibitor of CDK, increased significantly when drugs were used in combination,
which resulted in the decrease of Rb phosphorylation level and cell cycle arrest (Figure
).
(4) The effect of Doxorubicin combined with SC13 on DNA damage of SW480 cells
Firstly, the protein expression of DNA double-strand break marker yH2AX was detected
by Western Blot under different drug treatments. The results showed that the expression
of yH2AX increased after Doxorubicin treatment, but it increased more significantly
when Doxorubicin and SC13 combined treatment (Fig. 6A).Then, we verified by
immunofluorescence that the fluorescence intensity of yH2AX and another DNA damage
marker, 53BP1, increased significantly when the drugs were used together, indicating that
the degree of DNA damage increased significantly when the drugs were used together
(Figure 6B, Figure 6C, Figure 6D, Figure 6E). Karyotype analysis showed that when
Doxorubicin was used in combination with SC13, more malformations and breaks of
chromosomes would occur (Figure 6F). Fig. 6G is a statistical analysis of chromosome
aberration.
(5) 2.2.6 The effect of Doxorubicin combined with SC13 on apoptosis of SW480 cells
Through the previous research, we know that the combination of Doxorubicin and SC13
can inhibit the proliferation of SW480 cells, block the cell cycle, and aggravate the
degree of DNA damage. We guess that the inhibition of cell proliferation is due to
apoptosis. At first, we used flow cytometry to detect the apoptosis degree of SW480 cells
treated with different drugs. The results showed that SW480 cells were not significantly
apoptotic when treated with two drugs alone, but significantly apoptotic when SC13 was
combined with Doxorubicin (fig. 7A, fig. 7B). By detecting several typical apoptotic
proteins, it was found that the cleavage degree of caspase3 increased obviously, the
expression of pro-apoptotic protein Bax increased obviously, and the expression of anti- apoptotic protein Bcl-2 decreased obviously when the drugs were used together (Figure
7C). The results of immunofluorescence in fig. 7D further prove that the expression of
Cleaved-caspase3-3 increased significantly when combined with drugs.
Example 4 Anti-tumor effect of Doxorubicin combined with SC13 at animal level
Vitro experiments proved that the combination of low concentration Doxorubicin and
SC13 has obvious tumor killing effect on SW480 cells and HCT-8 cells. However, only
vitro cell level experiments are not enough to prove the effect of Doxorubicin combined
with SC13 on tumor tissues in vivo. Therefore, vivo animal level experiments are needed
to study whether the combination of Doxorubicin and SC13 is still effective in animals
vivo. We cultured SW480 cells in large quantities and injected them subcutaneously into
nude mice about 5 weeks old. Each nude mouse was injected subcutaneously with about
3 million cells in a volume of 100 L. In about 10 days, the tumor volume reached about
mm3. At this time, nude mice were randomly divided into 4 groups, which were
injected with drug solvent, SC13, Doxorubicin or the mixture of SC13 and Doxorubicin.
Every time, the injection amount of SC13 is 2mg/kg, and the injection amount of
Doxorubicin is 5mg/kg.The volume of each drug injection is 100L single drug or 200L
mixture of two drugs. The drug was injected every other day for 7 times, and the tumor
volume was recorded every two days. The results in fig. 8A show that with the increase
of drug injection days, the tumor volume of nude mice in the solvent group increased the
fastest, followed by SC13 group and Doxorubicin group, while the tumor volume of the
two drug combination groups hardly increased after 33 days of measurement, indicating
that the drug combination treatment has a good inhibitory effect on the tumor in nude mice .After 33 days of drug treatment, we cut off the tumor tissue of each nude mouse in each group and arranged it according to the size and group. It can be clearly seen that the drug combination group has obvious tumor inhibition effect (Figure 8B). The cut tumor was weighed, and the results showed that the tumor weight of the drug combination group was significantly lighter than that of other groups (Figure 8C). The paraffin section staining of tumor showed that the expression of Ki67 decreased obviously, Cleaved caspase3 increased obviously, the fluorescence intensity of DNA damage markers yH2AX and 53BP1 increased obviously, the fluorescence intensity of TUNEL increased obviously and the apoptosis rate increased (Figure 8D). These results are consistent with the results of cell experiments in vitro.
Example 5 Study on the mechanism of synthetic lethal effect caused by combination of
Doxorubicin and SC13
(1) The effects of Doxorubicin alone and Doxorubicin combined with SC13 on
homologous recombination repair
The above experimental results show that Doxorubicin combined with SC13 has a strong
tumor inhibitory effect both in vitro and in vivo. But why does SC13 and low
concentration Doxorubicin alone have no obvious killing effect on tumor cells, but when
combined with drugs, it has obvious killing effect on cells? With this question, we carried
on the next inquiry. As mentioned earlier, FEN Iplays an important role in the repair of
long base excision, and FEN Iinhibitor SC13 can directly inhibit the process of base
excision and repair (BER) by inhibiting FEN activity in FENI. Colon cancer cells
SW480 and HCT-8 are all DNA repair-free cells. When SC13 is used alone to inhibit
BER pathway in these two kinds of cells, only DNA single strand breaks (SSBs) can not
be repaired in time, while DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) can still be repaired, so
SC13 alone is not enough to kill these two kinds of cells. When SC13 is added in the
presence of low concentration of Doxorubicin, SC13 shows a strong drug sensitizing
effect, and its killing effect on cells is obviously stronger than that of using Doxorubicin
with the same concentration alone. Our guess is that Doxorubicin inhibits the repair of
double strand breaks. Therefore, when SC13 is added to inhibit the repair of single strand
breaks, the DNA repair function of cells is severely hindered, resulting in obvious
synthetic death. Homologous recombination repair (HRR) is an important way to repair
double-strand breaks. We used single cell immunofluorescence analysis to detect the
repair efficiency of HRR by flow cytometry, and found that the repair efficiency of HRR
decreased significantly after cells were treated with Doxorubicin, which proved that HRR
pathway was inhibited after cells were treated with Doxorubicin for some time (Figure
9A). Then, we detected the changes of two important proteins BRCA1 and Rad51 in the
homologous recombination repair pathway in SW480 cells, and found that the expression
of Rad51 decreased when SC13 was combined with Doxorubicin. However, when
Doxorubicin was used alone, the expression of BRCA1 decreased significantly (Figure
9B). We detected BRCA1 by immunohistochemical staining on tumor sections of nude
mice, and found that BRCA1 expression decreased significantly when Doxorubicin was
used alone in vivo (Figure 9C). In HCT-8 cells, the changes of Rad51 and BRCA1 were
consistent with those of SW480 cells (Figure. 9D).
(2) After knocking down BRCA1, the sensitivity of cells to SC13 was detected
We simulated the defects of HRR pathway by knocking down BRCA1 in SW480 (Figure
1OA) and HCT-8 (Figure 1OC) with lentiviral RNAi interference. The result shows that
SW480 (Figure 1OB) and HCT-8 (Figure 1OD), which are originally insensitive to SC13,
become more sensitive to SC13 after knocking down BRCA1. This result further proves
that when FEN Iand BRCA1 can't function normally at the same time, the cells will have
synthetic lethal effect. Combined with the previous experimental results, it can also
explain that one of the reasons for the anti-tumor effect of Doxorubicin combined with
SC13 is that BER and HRR pathways are simultaneously inhibited.

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THE CLAIMS DEFINING THE INVENTION ARE AS FOLLOWS:
1. A Doxorubicin combined medicine is characterized by comprising Doxorubicin, FENI
protein inhibitor and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
2. The Doxorubicin combination medicine according to claim lis characterized in that the
FEN1 protein inhibitor is SC13.
3. Application of the Doxorubicin combination medicine according to claim 1 or 2 in
preparing medicines for preventing and treating cancer.
4. Application of the Doxorubicin combination medicine according to claim 1 or 2 in
preparing medicines for preventing and treating colon cancer.
5. Application of FENIinhibitor SC13 combined with chemotherapy drug Doxorubicin
in preparing medicines for preventing and treating colon cancer.
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