Prediction of Repurposed Drug Compound For Astrocytoma
Tzu-Ting Hsu, Feng-Hsiang Chung, Hsi-Chieh Lee · 2012
The fields of medicine, biotechnology and pharmacology have all witnessed great progress in recent years, yet new drug discovery is still a long, expensive, difficult, and inefficient process. Adverse side effects of successful drugs remain a series issue. Repurposed drug discovery is a promising low-cost, time-saving approach to drug discovery. Cancer is a complex disease and its curing calls for a systems treatment. In 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) suggested that mobile phone radiation could be a risk of brain cancer. Among brain cancers glioma has the poorest prognosis, with the highest percentage of patients dying within one year.