Chimeric proteins comprising soluble Tissue Factor (sTF) and another
subunit (e.g., annexin V) are described. The proteins promote blood
clotting and/or inhibit cancer by targeting sTF to specific receptors
such as phosphatidyl serine (PS) on activated cells. These chimeric
proteins are useful in treating patients with excessive bleeding due to
inborn problems, drug therapy, trauma or surgery and/or as an anti-cancer
therapy, for example by causing blood vessels feeding cancers to become
clotted, thereby preventing adequate flow of blood to a tumor, which in
turn will lead to tumor inhibition and death or may be used in a therapy
to cause clotting within blood vessels that pose a threat in the subject
in non-cancerous conditions.