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The Role of Repurposed Drugs in Prostate Cancer Therapy
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@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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I would call those as "supportive" or "complementary" - drugs that can possibly make cancer cells more effected by ACTUAL cancer drugs and "in theory" of course, never proven to do so but nobody did randomized trials either, I guess.
Estrogen is proven to control PC the same way as regular ADT does , so Estrogen is truly repurposed drug.
PC's "indolence" (even in the most aggressive form) is both blessing and a problem.
Blessing because patients can live for many years, but it is a problem since PC is not easily and readily recognized by our immune system and that is why immunotherapy development goes so slow. That is why patients have to be on ADT for so long since PC cells are so slow to divide and to die off after radiation.