Discover the effectiveness of cancer in dozens of common drugs

These medications include diabetes, intestinal irritation, alcohol withdrawal, and even medications for the bones of pet dogs. But all of them share a common belief that these older drugs have more or less the ability to end or reduce cancer.



Scientists at the Broad Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Dina Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard have reviewed a total of 6,000 drugs that are in general use. Of these, 50 have been shown to be effective against cancer. In this way, perhaps the fight against cancer will accelerate and thus we will be able to make better medicines.



Experts in the world, Todd Golub, said that laboratories around the world have been trying for years to find a compound against cancer, and now there are dozens of drugs that are used worldwide after FDA approval. Are happening For the first time, such a large number of medications have been tested for cancer.



Experts have identified 578 different types of cancer cells from the Cancer Line Encyclopedia (CCLE) and tested the drug on them and have promising results. Often medications have been found to be effective in preventing cancer-causing proteins