The present invention relates to method and means for treating a
vascularized solid tumor using a number of, in vitro prepared,
anticellular agent(s)-carrying blood platelets to induce a thrombus
formation within the tumor vasculature, and at the same time to deliver a
high concentration of an anticellular agent within the tumor. The blood
platelets are targeted and attached to the tumor vasculature using in
vivo assembled binding complexes, each having at least one binding site
specifically binding to tumor cells or to tumor-associated vasculature,
and at least one binding site specifically binding to a blood platelet
surface. The platelet-mediated thrombus formed within the tumor
vasculature leads to occlusion of the tumor vasculature, with ultimate
destruction of the centrally located tumor cells. This is followed by
destruction or suppressing the growth or cell division of the
peripherally located tumor cells, by the anticellular agent(s) carried by
the blood platelets.