Diabetes drug can reduce risk of cancer, researchers find

Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 10:56 in Health & Medicine

Metformin reduced the development of lung tumors in mice by more than 70%. Clinical trials on humans for lung, breast and prostate cancer are being organized.A growing body of evidence suggests that the widely used diabetes drug metformin can reduce the risk of cancer, researchers said Wednesday.

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