Can anyone point me in the direction of UK-registered doctors who believe in, and are open to discussions about researching and prescribing repurposed drugs (i.e. off-patent drugs for which a safety profile has been established but where efficacy, although evinced by “anecdotal” single write-ups in journals, has not necessarily been through Phase 3 RCTs for oncology)?
A close relative, who was deemed by the NHS to have >4 QUALYs two years ago, is now exhibiting stage IIIA endometrial cancer which was not eradicated by surgery earlier this year, and the NHS has, very gently, washed its hands of anything further, beyond palliative care.
By profession, I am a generalist researcher who is used to sifting through and spotting patterns in large quantities of unstructured data, and family circumstances have turned my attention to this. I believe there is some data for what you might call “palliative care with a bit of 'Edge'...” (and plenty of discussion about various drugs among doctors in the US) but I am having trouble finding anyone in the UK who admits to working in the field,with whom I can discuss specifics.
