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ArticleJournal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR2016

Metronomic Chemotherapy: Seems Prowess to Battle against Cancer in Current Scenario.

Prema Muthusamy, Krishnan Vengadaragava Chary, G K Nalini

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Article in Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
  2. Metronomic Chemotherapy in Elderly Patients.Current oncology reports · 2024
    Review
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  4. EngineeredJournal of biological engineering · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Prema MuthusamyPostgraduate, Department of Pharmacology, Haasan Institute of Medical Sciences , Haasan, Karanataka, India .
Krishnan Vengadaragava CharyAssistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Saveetha Medical College , Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India .
G K NaliniProfessor, Department of Pharmacology, Haasan Institute of Medical Sciences , Haasan, Karanataka, India .
Takasago (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionMetronomic chemotherapy is an emerging method of chemotherapy. Metronomic 'lowdose' chemotherapy regimen induces tumour dormancy and reduces cancer resistance against anticancer drugs. It tends to improve overall success rate of cancer chemotherapy than conventional cyclical regimen.

aimThe aim of this systemic review was to provide comprehensive data of metronomic chemotherapy trials, regimens used and it's outcome in cancer therapeutics. MATERIALS AND

methodsFifty chemotherapy trial data were searched sequentially from web. The main sources were official website of Clinical trial forum, USA and Clinical Trial Registry India (CTRI). Evidence on efficacy and safety of such metronomic chemotherapy trials was gathered from various data published in Medline, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Lancet Oncology and other journals with high credentials. As a result of our search, out of 50 trials including breast -15(30%), colon-, 5(10%) ovarian -5(10%), prostate-5(10%) and others including haematologic, soft tissue and nervous system malignancies -20 (50%). Twenty seven trials showed favourable, 20 trials showed equivocal outcome and 3 trials reported unfavourable outcome. Overall comparison showed definitive statistical significance for using metronomic regimen (p-0.05).

conclusionIt can be concluded that metronomic chemotherapy regimen seems convincing beneficial to induce tumour remission and survival at a higher than conventional regimen. More metanalyses are needed to frame common metronomic chemotherapeutic regimen.

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Cancer resistanceLow dose chemotherapyMaintenance chemotherapy

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PMID28050393
PMCPMC5198346
OpenAlexW2558974508

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