Simple Summary Cancer mortalities are growing at an alarming pace around the globe, a
fact related to challenges, such as side effects, selectivity, and resistance, accompanied by …

Highlights•Discovery of new drugs against cancer is of utmost importance.•Drug repurposing
is an alternative approach to traditional drug discovery.•It significantly reduces the R&D …

The development of efficacious antitumor compounds with minimal toxicity is a hot research
topic. Numerous cancer cell targeted agents are evaluated daily in laboratories for their …

While majority of the current treatment approaches for cancer remain expensive and are
associated with several side effects, development of new treatment modalities takes a …

What is known and objective In order to expedite the availability of drugs to treat cancers in a
cost‐effective manner, repurposing of old drugs for oncological indications is gathering …

Human malignancies are one of the major health-related issues though out the world and
anticipated to rise in the future. The development of novel drugs/agents requires a huge …

Cancers are regarded as one of the main causes of death and result in high health burden
worldwide. The management of cancer include chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy …

Simple Summary Exploring the possibility of using well-known marketed drugs in new
therapeutic indications, commonly known as drug repurposing, offers certain advantages …

Background Drug repurposing can speed up access to new therapeutic options for cancer
patients. With more than 2000 drugs approved worldwide and 6 relevant targets per drug on …

Drug repurposing or repositioning has been well-known to refer to the therapeutic
applications of a drug for another indication other than it was originally approved for …