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Drug Combination Details

General Information of the Combination (ID: C27728)
Name Metformin   NP Info  + Erlotinib   Drug Info 
Structure +
Disease
Breast cancer [ICD-11: 2C60]
Phase 1 [1]
Lung cancer [ICD-11: 2C25]
Investigative [2]
Combinatorial Therapeutic Effect(s) Validated Clinically or Experimentally
    α. Enhancing Drug Efficacy by This Combination
                 Achieving Therapeutic Synergy     Click to Show/Hide
                    Experiment 1 Reporting the Effect of This Combination [2]
                    In-vivo Model Clinical trial
                    Experimental
                    Result(s)
Metformin and EGFR-TKI have a synergistic effect in the treatment of DM2 NSCLC patients harboring EGFR-activating mutations.
References
Reference 1 ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01650506) Study of Erlotinib and Metformin in Triple Negative Breast Cancer.
Reference 2 Synergistic effects of metformin in combination with EGFR-TKI in the treatment of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer and type 2 diabetes. Cancer Lett. 2015 Dec 1;369(1):97-102.
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Cite NPCDR
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Correspondence

X. N. Sun, Y. T. Zhang, Y. Zhou, X. C. Lian, L. L. Yan, T. Pan, T. Jin, H. Xie, Z. M. Liang, W. Q. Qiu, J. X. Wang, Z. R. Li, F. Zhu*, X. B. Sui*. NPCDR: natural product-based drug combination and its disease-specific molecular regulation. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(D1): 1324-1333 (2020). PMID: 34664659

Prof. Feng ZHU  (zhufeng@zju.edu.cn)

College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China


Prof. Xinbing SUI  (hzzju@hznu.edu.cn)

School of Pharmacy and Department of Medical Oncology, the Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China