[HTML][HTML] Antidiabetics, anthelmintics, statins, and beta-blockers as co-adjuvant drugs in cancer therapy

L Gales, L Forsea, D Mitrea, I Stefanica, I Stanculescu… - Medicina, 2022 - mdpi.com
Over the last years, repurposed agents have provided growing evidence of fast
implementation in oncology treatment such as certain antimalarial, anthelmintic, antibiotics …

[HTML][HTML] Propranolol: A “Pick and Roll” Team Player in Benign Tumors and Cancer Therapies

V Albiñana, E Gallardo-Vara, J Casado-Vela… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Research on cancer therapies focuses on processes such as angiogenesis, cell signaling,
stemness, metastasis, and drug resistance and inflammation, all of which are influenced by …

[HTML][HTML] Role of metformin and other metabolic drugs in the prevention and therapy of endocrine-related cancers

AJ Leon-Gonzalez, JM Jimenez-Vacas… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Metabolic syndrome is associated with chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes,
cardiovascular diseases, and cancer. This review summarizes the current evidence on the …

Metformin and anti-cancer therapeutics: hopes for a more enhanced armamentarium against human neoplasias?

MI Christodoulou, A Scorilas - Current Medicinal Chemistry, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Metformin, a natural product from Galega officinalis, is an oral drug, now in the forefront of
the therapeutic management of type-2 diabetes mellitus. A series of clinical observations of …

[HTML][HTML] Metformin as an adjuvant treatment for cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

C Coyle, FH Cafferty, C Vale, RE Langley - Annals of Oncology, 2016 - Elsevier
This systematic review and meta-analysis is the first to evaluate the evidence for an
association between metformin use and cancer outcomes in patients undergoing treatment …

Metformin: taking away the candy for cancer?

M Jalving, JA Gietema, JD Lefrandt, S de Jong… - European journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
Metformin is widely used in the treatment of diabetes mellitus type 2 where it reduces insulin
resistance and diabetes-related morbidity and mortality. Population-based studies show that …

[HTML][HTML] Incorporating the antidiabetic drug metformin in HER2-positive breast cancer treated with neo-adjuvant chemotherapy and trastuzumab: An ongoing clinical …

B Martin-Castillo, J Dorca… - Annals of …, 2010 - annalsofoncology.org
At the time of writing, a search in ClinicalTrials. gov yields six open studies evaluating the
efficacy and safety of treating cancer patients with the antidiabetic biguanide metformin. At …

Propranolol for off-label treatment of patients with melanoma: results from a cohort study

V De Giorgi, M Grazzini, S Benemei… - JAMA …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Preclinical and retrospective studies showed that β-blockers inhibit
angiogenesis and disrupt migration of melanoma cells via inhibition of noradrenaline …

[HTML][HTML] Propranolol potentiates the anti-angiogenic effects and anti-tumor efficacy of chemotherapy agents: implication in breast cancer treatment

E Pasquier, J Ciccolini, M Carre, S Giacometti… - Oncotarget, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recent clinical evidence revealed that the use of beta-blockers such as propranolol, prior to
diagnosis or concurrently with chemotherapy, could increase relapse-free and overall …

[HTML][HTML] Metformin and cancer: Quo vadis et cui bono?

JA Menendez, B Martin-Castillo, J Joven - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
How many lives have already been saved by the anti-cancer drug metformin? Inadvertently
perhaps, among the millions of type 2 diabetics with occult or known cancers and who have …