An Open Access Database of Licensed Cancer Drugs

A global, comprehensive and open access listing of approved anticancer drugs does not currently exist. Partial information is available from multiple sources, including regulatory authorities, national formularies scientific agencies. Many such data sources include used in oncology for supportive care, diagnostic or other non-antineoplastic uses. We describe a methodology to combine cleanse relevant produce an database licensed specifically therapeutic antineoplastic purposes. The resulting list provided as database, ( http://www.redo-project.org/cancer-drugs-db/ ), so that it may be by researchers input further research projects, example literature-based text mining drug repurposing.