Description of methods for the treatment of cancer. More specifically methods of treating cancer selected from the group consisting of squamous cell cancer, lung cancer including small-cell lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, adenocarcinoma of the lung, and squamous carcinoma of the lung, cancer of the peritoneum, hepatocellular cancer, gastric or stomach cancer including gastrointestinal cancer, pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, liver cancer, bladder cancer, hepatoma, breast cancer, colon cancer, colorectal cancer, endometrial or uterine carcinoma, salivary gland carcinoma, kidney or renal cancer, liver cancer, prostate cancer, vulval cancer, thyroid cancer, hepatic carcinoma and various types of head and neck cancer, as well as B-cell lymphoma including low grade/follicular non-Hodgkin' s lymphoma (NHL)； small lymphocytic (SL) NHL； intermediate grade/ follicular NHL； intermediate grade diffuse NHL, high grade immunoblastic NHL； high grade lymphoblastic NHL, high grade small non-cleaved cell NHL； bulky disease NHL； mantle cell lymphoma； AIDS-related lymphoma； and Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia,- chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)； acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)； Hairy cell leukemia； chronic myeloblastic leukemia； and post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD), as well as abnormal vascular proliferation associated with phakomatoses, edema such as that associated with brain tumors, Meigs' syndrome, melanoma, mesothelioma, multiple myeloma, fibrosarcoma, osteosarcoma and epidermoid carcinoma, by administering antibodies directed to alpha2betal integrin.
