Metronomic chemotherapy from rationale to clinical studies: a dream or reality?

A Gnoni, N Silvestris, A Licchetta, D Santini… - Critical reviews in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Metronomic chemotherapy (MC) refers to the close administration of a chemotherapeutic
drug for a long time with no extended drug-free breaks. It was developed to overcome drug …

Metronomic chemotherapy: a systematic review of the literature and clinical experience

C Simsek, E Esin, S Yalcin - Journal of oncology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Metronomic chemotherapy, continuous and dose‐dense administration of chemotherapeutic
drugs with lowered doses, is being evaluated for substituting, augmenting, or appending …

Metronomic chemotherapy

ME Cazzaniga, N Cordani, S Capici, V Cogliati, F Riva… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The present article reviews the state of the art of metronomic
chemotherapy use to treat the principal types of cancers, namely breast, non-small cell lung …

Metronomic chemotherapy: changing the paradigm that more is better

OG Scharovsky, LE Mainetti, VR Rozados - Current oncology, 2009 - mdpi.com
The introduction of the “maximum tolerated dose” in usual treatment protocols (and its
concomitant overt toxicity) made necessary the imposition of rest periods between cycles of …

Current achievements and future perspectives of metronomic chemotherapy

A Romiti, R Falcone, M Roberto, P Marchetti - Investigational new drugs, 2017 - Springer
In recent years, many anticancer drugs have been tested at metronomic dosages for a
variety of tumours. Mechanisms of action attributed to metronomic chemotherapy (MCT) …

Metronomic chemotherapy: an attractive alternative to maximum tolerated dose therapy that can activate anti-tumor immunity and minimize therapeutic resistance

I Kareva, DJ Waxman, GL Klement - Cancer letters, 2015 - Elsevier
The administration of chemotherapy at reduced doses given at regular, frequent time
intervals, termed 'metronomic'chemotherapy, presents an alternative to standard maximal …

Metronomic chemotherapy: new rationale for new directions

E Pasquier, M Kavallaris, N André - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2010 - nature.com
Tumor angiogenesis is recognized as a major therapeutic target in the fight against cancer.
The key involvement of angiogenesis in tumor growth and metastasis has started to redefine …

Metronomic chemotherapy: A potent macerator of cancer by inducing angiogenesis suppression and antitumor immune activation

E Biziota, L Mavroeidis, E Hatzimichael, P Pappas - Cancer letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Metronomic chemotherapy is a low dosing treatment strategy that attracts growing scientific
and clinical interest. It refers to dense and uninterrupted administration of low doses of …

Metronomics: towards personalized chemotherapy?

N André, M Carré, E Pasquier - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2014 - nature.com
Since its inception in 2000, metronomic chemotherapy has undergone major advances as
an antiangiogenic therapy. The discovery of the pro-immune properties of chemotherapy …

The potential clinical promise of 'multimodality'metronomic chemotherapy revealed by preclinical studies of metastatic disease

RS Kerbel, Y Shaked - Cancer letters, 2017 - Elsevier
We present a rationale for further clinical development and assessment of metronomic
chemotherapy on the basis of unexpected results obtained in translational mouse models of …