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The Role of Repurposed Drugs in Prostate Cancer Therapy
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I might be wrong - but wouldn't estrogen be considered as "repurposed" drug for PC treatment ? Just a thought 🤔
I read not long ago that there are other cancers where with the help of AI some meds were repurposed with good results. I guess we never know what might help and I truly believe that AI will be great help in finding new drugs or finding old ones that might work for different diseases in general.
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@surftohealth88
After a clinical trial showed it to be equal to ADT, And the report is out and released, It’s just another drug in the Collection of choices doctors have.
I would consider a repurpose drug to be some other drug that has never been in a clinical trial for prostate cancer being used to see if it works.
@surftohealth88 Metformin is another one, especially when combined with doxycycline, but it is NOT endorsed by medical professionals as a treatment for PCa.
There is always the hope - and possibility - that a cancer drug which failed to halt, let’s say, pancreatic or brain cancer, is found to arrest certain prostate cancers.
This is where AI could really shine: sifting through hundreds of thousands of patients in different drug protocols and cataloging certain treatment outcomes and beneficial SE’s that were never even considered at the start.
It’s not classical research - but who cares?
Phil
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Yes! I believe (and hope) that AI will change the cancer landscape as we know it soon.
It already can compare millions of biopsies in seconds. Next will be petscans, mri, etc.
This is an interesting post to have a conversation about!