ReviewNature reviews. Clinical oncology2014
Metronomics: towards personalized chemotherapy?
Review in Nature reviews. Clinical oncology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 141 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Phase 2 Trial of Metronomic Treatment in Children and Adolescents With Recurrent or Progressive Neuroblastoma (NB)
A Phase 1, Multicenter, Single Agent Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Preliminary Evidence of Antitumor Activity of CPO-100 in Adult Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors
Who cites it
141 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Efficacy of oral metronomic chemotherapy in the management of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma-a systematic review.Frontiers in oral health · 2025Pooled it
- Metronomic chemotherapy for paediatric extracranial solid tumours: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials.BMJ open · 2024Pooled it
- An individual patient-data meta-analysis of metronomic oral vinorelbine in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.PloS one · 2019Pooled it
- General recommendations paper on the management of older patients with cancer: the SEOM geriatric oncology task force's position statement.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2018Guideline
- MOVIE phase II trial of tremelimumab plus durvalumab combined with metronomic oral vinorelbine in patients with head and neck cancer.ESMO open · 2025Trial
- Lipid metabolism associated with efficacy of metronomic capecitabine and camrelizumab in gastrointestinal cancer: an exploratory clinical trial.BMC medicine · 2025Trial
- Metronomic Capecitabine Plus Aromatase Inhibitor as Initial Therapy in Patients With Hormone Receptor-Positive, Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer: The Phase III MECCA Trial.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2025Trial
- Durvalumab and tremelimumab in combination with metronomic oral vinorelbine for recurrent advanced cervical cancer: an open-label phase I/II study.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2025Trial
- Metronomic chemotherapy plus anti-PD-1 in metastatic breast cancer: a Bayesian adaptive randomized phase 2 trial.Nature medicine · 2024Trial
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- Metronomic capecitabine as maintenance treatment after first line induction with XELOX for metastatic colorectal cancer patients.Medicine · 2020Trial
- Oral metronomic vinorelbine combined with endocrine therapy in hormone receptor-positive HER2-negative breast cancer: SOLTI-1501 VENTANA window of opportunity trial.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2019Trial
- Differential Involvement of Autophagy and Apoptosis in Response to Chemoendocrine and Endocrine Therapy in Breast Cancer: JBCRG-07TR.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Trial
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- Metronomic Chemotherapy vs Best Supportive Care in Progressive Pediatric Solid Malignant Tumors: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA oncology · 2017Trial
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- Metronomic cyclophosphamide therapy in hormone-naive patients with non-metastatic biochemical recurrent prostate cancer: a phase II trial.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2016Trial
- Predictive Biomarkers of Metronomic Chemotherapy Response in Solid Tumors: Chasing an Elusive Signal.Cancers · 2026Review
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- Efficacy and toxicity of maintenance therapy with PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors plus pemetrexed vs . immunotherapy alone for stage III/IV non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer: A real-world study.Chinese medical journal · 2026Article
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Abstract
Since its inception in 2000, metronomic chemotherapy has undergone major advances as an antiangiogenic therapy. The discovery of the pro-immune properties of chemotherapy and its direct effects on cancer cells has established the intrinsic multitargeted nature of this therapeutic approach. The past 10 years have seen a marked rise in clinical trials of metronomic chemotherapy, and it is increasingly combined in the clinic with conventional treatments, such as maximum-tolerated dose chemotherapy and radiotherapy, as well as with novel therapeutic strategies, such as drug repositioning, targeted agents and immunotherapy. We review the latest advances in understanding the complex mechanisms of action of metronomic chemotherapy, and the recently identified factors associated with disease resistance. We comprehensively discuss the latest clinical data obtained from studies performed in both adult and paediatric populations, and highlight ongoing clinical trials. In this Review, we foresee the future developments of metronomic chemotherapy and specifically its potential role in the era of personalized medicine.
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