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Metformin as an anti-ageing drug after cancer Metformin is cheap, old and safe enough that it is the obvious candidate for a drug that slows ageing. The largest cancer trial ever run on it, in 3,649 women with breast cancer, found nothing. The trial designed to test whether it slows ageing itself has not been run. | HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer | none | rejuvenation, survivorship | ||
Rapamycin and mTOR inhibition for ageing Rapamycin extends life in every species it has been properly tested in, which is why people take it off-label. In humans there are two randomised results worth knowing: a related drug improved the flu vaccine response in older people by about a fifth, and a year of low-dose rapamycin in healthy adults did not change its primary endpoint. That is the whole of it. | none | none | rejuvenation, survivorship |