Good article about repurposed drugs that kill cancer

[George71]

"With investment from big pharma lacking, some groups are coming up with creative ways of getting these drugs into clinical trials. In November, doctors at St George’s hospital used crowdfunding to raise £50,000 to test the benefits of the anti-malarial drug artesunate on 140 patients with colorectal cancer. In an earlier pilot study of 20 patients, the cancer spread in six of the 11 given a placebo, compared with just one of the nine given artesunate. In this case, the drug appears to kill cancer cells directly, and it costs just 70p per day."

theguardian.com/science/201...

[NPfisherman]

Thank you for posting this information. There are articles about metformin blocking the mTor pathway and I'll be asking my MO about metformin....

[cesanon]

There needs to be more of these types of studies.

They will likely only be done by patient crowdfunded studies.