USE OF SMALL MOLECULE INHIBITORS/ACTIVATORS IN COMBINATION WITH (DEOXY)NUCLEOSIDE OR (DEOXY)NUCLEOTIDE ANALOGS FOR TREATMENT OF CANCER AND HEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCIES OR VIRAL INFECTIONS
A method for treating patients afflicted with cancer (including hematological malignancies) or viral infections, wherein the patients are under treatment or are to be treated with at least one anticancer or antiviral agent, and in particular (deoxy)nucleotide or (deoxy)nucleoside analog drugs, includes administering at least one small molecule inhibitor/activator (including ATP competitive inhibitors, signal transduction inhibitors/activators, protein kinase inhibitors/activators, and tyrosine kinase inhibitors/activators) in combination with the (deoxy) nucleotide or (deoxy)nucleoside analog, and wherein the small molecule inhibitor/activator is administered in sufficient amount to modulate deoxynucleotide or deoxynucleoside kinase activity (and in particular deoxycytidine kinase activity) to modulate activation of the (deoxy)nucleotide or (deoxy)nucleoside analog in vivo with a subsequent therapeutically beneficial anticancer or antiviral effect. The combined treatments together include a therapeutically effective amount.
