the rationale behind repurposed drugs: an interesting article

[Maxone73]

why, how and what to expect

nature.com/articles/s41416-...

[Rolphs]

Excellent Post! What I found particularly interesting is the table in the article: "List of repurposed drugs that have gone or are undergoing clinical trials for anti- cancer indications." IMO, combination therapy to hold the disease a bay (like HIV) is much more likely to keep more of us alive than a "cure."

Thanks!

[Maxone73 in reply to Rolphs]

The jury is still out…I only hope we will have measurable results one way or the other and soon! 😊

[dhccpa]

This idea has been floating for years now. The problem is no one has the billions to spend on the clinical trials needed for FDA approval except Big Pharma and those companies only want ball busting profitable drugs at stratospheric prices. It's a problem in our system.

So people do their own thing individually with these drugs, as mentioned on this very forum from time to time.

I'll check the article out, though, and thanks for posting!

[Maxone73]

it is being done, especially in poorer countries and/or financed by governments and private associations…the fact is that these trials since they rely on approved medicines take less time and less money. Of course you are right: where there is money to make there are also more investment, but this amount of repurposing is better than nothing 😀😀