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Old drugs give new hope in cancer

3 August 2022

Wednesday 3 August 2022, 12:05 AM

David Young, Swee Tan, Ruth Watson-Black

Cancer-drug study doctor David Young with Gillies McIndoe Research Institute director Swee Tan and study coordinator Ruth Watson-Black – phase II trial is ready to launch once funding is finalised [image: Supplied]

Virginia McMillan follows up on the cancer-drug trial she first reported in 2017, when patients with glioblastoma were being recruited to test a regimen of repurposed drugs

The 17 patients in an internationally novel clinical trial run from Hutt Valley did not live to see the promising results of the drug regimen they we

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O’Rawe M, Wickremesekera A, Pandey R et al. Treatment of glioblastoma with re-purposed renin-angiotensin system modulators: Results of a phase I clinical trial. J Clin Neurosci 2022;95:48–54.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2021.11.023

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