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Off-label drugs for cancer

Note: Off-label drugs are drugs that are used for a disease or condition other than the one they were originally approved for. For example, Metformin was originally approved to treat 2 diabetes but is also used off-label to treat cancer.

Here are some off-label drugs that have shown efficacy in cancer treatment.

Heparin (an anticoagulant)

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