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SUBMITTER: Sertedaki E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7291122 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sertedaki Eleni E Kotsinas Athanassios A
Cells 20200513 5
Drug repurposing appears to offer an attractive alternative in finding new anticancer agents. Their applicability seems to have multiple benefits, among which are the potential of immediate efficacy assessment in clinical trials and the existence of patient safety and tolerability evidence. Nevertheless, their effective application in terms of tumor-type targeting requires accurate knowledge of their exact mechanism of action. In this review, we present such a successful drug, namely Disulfiram ...[more]