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. 2019 Nov 30;11(24):12844–12861. doi: 10.18632/aging.102557

Table 3. Comparison of the therapies presented in this review.

Therapy Pros Cons
Senolytics High specificity
 - Targeted drugs
Sporadic treatments
 - Depending on compound efficacy
Low specificity
 - Non-targeted compounds
Side effects
 - BCL family inhibitors Increase in apoptotic bodies Chronic treatments
 - Depending on compound efficacy
Senomorphics High specificity
 - Targeting individual SASP components
Sporadic treatments
 - Depending on compound efficacy
Low specificity
 - Targeting central pathways
Chronic treatments
 - Depending on compound efficacy
Lack of senescent cell clearance?
Side effects
Improving immune system High specificity
 - Personalized treatments
 - Immunotherapy
Sporadic treatments
Dietary interventions
Time consuming and expensive
 - Personalized treatments
Low specificity
 - General activation
Side effects
 - Autoimmunity?
 - Hematopoietic malignancies?
Chronic treatments
Patients affected by immunosuppression and/or immunosenescence
TIS High specificity
 - Specific targets
Sporadic treatments
Stops tumor growth
Possibility to combine with other therapies
Low specificity
 - General damage (chemo-radiotherapies)
Side effects
 - New tumors
 - Fibrosis
 Chronic treatments
Increasing senescence burden