# OnCo record drug-repurposing (technology). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/technologies/drug-repurposing/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "drug-repurposing" ;
  schema:name "Systematic drug repurposing"@en ;
  schema:description "Testing cheap old drugs, aspirin, metformin, statins, beta-blockers, as cancer treatments, because they are safe, available and sometimes work."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/drug-repurposing/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-08"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01101438>, <https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02804815> ;
  onco:status "phase-3" ;
  onco:tag "frontier" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/drug-discovery/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/prevention/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/chemoprevention/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/ai-drug-design/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/exercise-oncology/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/real-world-evidence/> .