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. 2015 Feb 24;9:513. doi: 10.3332/ecancer.2015.513

Table 1. Clinical trials in multiple myeloma and Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia patients with CAM as cancer treatment.

Disease Targets Drug combination (with selected references)
Breast cancer Pro-inflammatory cytokines, monocytes …
During and after surgery
NSAIDs [18], aspirin [19], beta-blockers [20]
NSCLC Pro-inflammatory cytokines, monocytes …
During and after surgery and/or radiotherapy
NSAIDs [13, 14], aspirin [21], cimetidine [22], beta-blockers [14]
NSCLC Angiogenesis and endothelial cells Metronomic [6, 23] or maintenance [1, 2] chemotherapy, aspirin [19, 24]
All solid tumours, highly inflammatory (e.g. high neutrophils to lymphocytes Ratio) Pro-inflammatory cytokines, monocytes, dendritic cells, T-cell trafficking … NSAIDs [13], metronomic chemotherapy [23]
Melanoma and other immunogenic tumours Immune cells of the tumour environment (effector T-cells, Myeloid-derived suppressor cells, regulator T-cells, macrophages) Immune checkpoint inhibitors [25], cellular immunotherapies [26]