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. 2023 Jul 25;16:80. doi: 10.1186/s13045-023-01478-6

Table 5.

Targeting cell metabolism for cancer treatment

Targets Drugs Clinical phase Conditions Sponsor Gov identifier
Tyrosine kinase PLX3397 1 Prostate adenocarcinoma Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute NCT02472275
Cholesterol Tesco Not applicable Breast cancer University of Leeds NCT04147767
mTOR Sirolimus 1/2 Pancreatic cancer Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University NCT03662412
Glucose metabolism Metformin 2 Breast cancer Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust NCT01266486
1 Head and neck squamous cell cancer Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University NCT02083692
1 Cancer of head and neck West Virginia University NCT02402348
2 Lung cancer M.D. Anderson Cancer Center NCT02285855
1 Endometrial cancer M.D. Anderson Cancer Center NCT01205672
2-DG 1/2 Prostate cancer Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey NCT00633087
Intracranial neoplasms NCT00247403
Neoplasm metastasis
PPARγ Rosiglitazone 2 Melanoma Dan Zandberg NCT04114136
Nsclc
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Dichloroacetate 1 Head and neck cancer Daniel T. Chang NCT01163487
Pioglitazone 2 Cancer of the pancreas University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center NCT01838317
Cholesterol Evolocumab 1 Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma CHU de Quebec-Universite Laval NCT04862260
1 Glioblastoma Duke University NCT04937413
Atorvastatin Pancreatic cancer
Ezetimibe Pancreas cancer
Metastatic cancer
HMG-CoA reductase Rosuvastatin 4 Prostate cancer metastatic National Cancer Institute, Egypt NCT04776889
Arginase INCB001158 1/2 Metastatic cancer Incyte Corporation NCT02903914
Solid tumours
Colorectal cancer
Gastric cancer
1 Advanced solid tumours Advanced solid tumours NCT03910530
Advanced solid tumours
1/2 Biliary tract cancer Incyte Corporation NCT03314935
Colorectal cancer
Endometrial cancer
1/2 Solid tumours Incyte Corporation NCT03361228