ReviewCellular & molecular biology letters2025
Old drugs, new challenges: reassigning drugs for cancer therapies.
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Abstract
The "War on Cancer" began with the National Cancer Act of 1971 and despite more than 50 years of effort and numerous successes, there still remains much more work to be done. The major challenge remains the complexity and intrinsic polygenicity of neoplastic diseases. Furthermore, the safety of the antitumor therapies still remains a concern given their often off-target effects. Although the amount of money invested in research and development required to introduce a novel FDA-approved drug has continuously increased, the likelihood for a new cancer drug's approval remains limited. One interesting alternative approach, however, is the idea of repurposing of old drugs, which is both faster and less costly than developing new drugs. Repurposed drugs have the potential to address the shortage of new drugs with the added benefit that the safety concerns are already established. That being said, their interactions with other new drugs in combination therapies, however, should be tested. In this review, we discuss the history of repurposed drugs, some successes and failures, as well as the multiple challenges and obstacles that need to be addressed in order to enhance repurposed drugs' potential for new cancer therapies.
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