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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A pill commonly taken for diabetes could double a woman?s chance of surviving ovarian cancer, researchers believe.
The drug, which costs ?1.30 a day, has been found to slow the growth of tumours and prevent them spreading.
Ovarian cancer is one of the deadliest types of the illness and half of women diagnosed do not survive beyond five years.
Often it is only detected once it has spread to other organs, at which point there are very few effective treatments available.
But US researchers claim metformin ? taken by thousands of Britons for diabetes ? could more than double survival odds.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...-slowing-tumour-growth.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
The drug, which costs ?1.30 a day, has been found to slow the growth of tumours and prevent them spreading.
Ovarian cancer is one of the deadliest types of the illness and half of women diagnosed do not survive beyond five years.
Often it is only detected once it has spread to other organs, at which point there are very few effective treatments available.
But US researchers claim metformin ? taken by thousands of Britons for diabetes ? could more than double survival odds.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...-slowing-tumour-growth.html?ito=feeds-newsxml