Metformin: taking away the candy for cancer?

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Summary

The role of diabetes mellitus type 2 and insulin resistance in carcinogenesis, the preclinical rationale and potential mechanisms of met formin's anti-cancer effect and the current and future clinical developments of metformin as a novel anti- cancer drug are discussed.

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review
Published
2010-09-01
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93

Keywords

Metformin, Medicine, Insulin resistance, Cancer, AMPK

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