Use of desmopressin in the preparation of a metastatic dissemination inhibitor medicament during cancer surgery

摘要

Use of 1-diamino-8-D-arginine vasopressin (desmopressin), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or a pharmaceutical composition containing any of them, in the preparation of a medicament which minimizes matastatic dissemination during cancer surgey. Additionally, the invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same and to a method of treating a mammal in order to inhibit metastastic spread in surgical extirpation of a cancer mass.