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Paths for Improving Bevacizumab Available in 2018: The ADZT Regimen for Better Glioblastoma Treatment

Version 1 : Received: 11 September 2018 / Approved: 12 September 2018 / Online: 12 September 2018 (03:54:33 CEST)

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Kast, R.E. Paths for Improving Bevacizumab Available in 2018: The ADZT Regimen for Better Glioblastoma Treatment. Med. Sci. 2018, 6, 84. Kast, R.E. Paths for Improving Bevacizumab Available in 2018: The ADZT Regimen for Better Glioblastoma Treatment. Med. Sci. 2018, 6, 84.

Abstract

During glioblastoma treatment, the pharmaceutical monoclonal antibody to VEGF, bevacizumab, has improved quality of life and delayed progression for several months but has not, or only marginally prolonged overall survival. In 2017 several dramatic research papers appeared that are crucial to our understanding of glioblastoma vis a vis the mode of action of bevacizumab. As a consequence of these papers, a new, potentially more effective, treatment protocol can be built around bevacizumab. This is the ADZT Regimen where four old drugs are added to bevacizumab. These four are apremilast, marketed to treat psoriasis, dapsone, marketed to treat Hansen’s disease, zonisamide, marketed to treat seizures, and telmisartan, marketed to treat hypertension. The ancillary attributes of each of these drugs has been shown to augment bevacizumab. This paper will detail the research data supporting that contention.

Keywords

ADZT regimen; apremilast; bevacizumab; cAMP; dapsone; glioblastoma; telmisartan; TNF-alpha; zonisamide

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Oncology and Oncogenics

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