Journal
CANCER LETTERS
Volume 419, Issue -, Pages 257-265Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2018.01.058
Keywords
Antipsychotic drugs; Drug repurposing; Cancer treatment; Histone deacetylases; Phenothiazines
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81472693]
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Cancer is a major public health problem and one of the leading contributors to the global disease burden. The high cost of development of new drugs and the increasingly severe burden of cancer globally have led to increased interest in the search and development of novel, affordable anti-neoplastic medications. Antipsychotic drugs have a long history of clinical use and tolerable safety; they have been used as good targets for drug repurposing. Being used for various psychiatric diseases for decades, antipsychotic drugs are now reported to have potent anti-cancer properties against a wide variety of malignancies in addition to their antipsychotic effects. In this review, an overview of repurposing various psychiatric drugs for cancer treatment is presented, and the putative mechanisms for the anti-neoplastic actions of these antipsychotic drugs are reviewed. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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