Drug repurposing for cancer treatments: a well-intentioned, but misguided strategy

Lancet Oncol. 2020 Sep;21(9):1134-1136. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30424-1.

Authors

Audrey A Tran¹, Vinay Prasad²

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine and Division of Hematology Oncology, Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
² Department of Medicine and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Fransisco, CA 94158, USA. Electronic address: vinayak.prasad@ucsf.edu.

PMID: 32888447
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30424-1

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MeSH terms

Aspirin / therapeutic use*
Drug Repositioning*
Humans
Metformin / therapeutic use*
Neoplasms / drug therapy*
Neoplasms / epidemiology
Vitamin D / therapeutic use

Substances

Vitamin D
Metformin
Aspirin