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Editorial
. 2025 Feb 11:15:1550672.
doi: 10.3389/fonc.2025.1550672. eCollection 2025.

Editorial: Drug repurposing for cancer treatment: current and future directions

Marios Lampros  1 , Nikolaos Vlachos  1 , Georgios D Lianos  1 , Christina Bali  2 , George A Alexiou  2
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Editorial: Drug repurposing for cancer treatment: current and future directions

Marios Lampros et al. Front Oncol. .
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Keywords: antipsychotics - treatment; cancer treatment; chemotherapy agents; gastrointestinal cancer; glioblastoma.

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