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Repurposing of Chronically Used Drugs in Cancer Therapy: A Chance to Grasp

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I am all for these repurposing efforts as long as they are supported by some serious basis...

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Graham49

From this paper, there appears to be few clinical trials results for drugs repurposed for prostate cancer even though anti cancer properties of the drugs have been known for many years. Research appears to be dragging its feet. There’s no big money in it for the pharmaceutical industry.

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Maxone73 in reply to Graham49

Yea but these are only the drugs currently used for chronic diseases (and not even all of them)

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Steel67

Have you or anyone heard of doxazosin and it’s anti PCa effects?

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Graham49

I have, I take it along with Candesartan.

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