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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A diabetes drug costing as little as 2p a tablet could offer a major breakthrough in the treatment of prostate cancer.
Research has shown that the medicine, called metformin, causes tumours to shrink by slowing the rate at which cancerous cells grow.
If the results are confirmed in bigger trials, it raises the possibility that men could be given the cheap, readily available drug as soon as they are diagnosed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...p-beat-prostate-cancer-shrinking-tumours.html
Research has shown that the medicine, called metformin, causes tumours to shrink by slowing the rate at which cancerous cells grow.
If the results are confirmed in bigger trials, it raises the possibility that men could be given the cheap, readily available drug as soon as they are diagnosed.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...p-beat-prostate-cancer-shrinking-tumours.html