Diabetes drug takes aim at cancer's fuel source

[Northerner]

In the last three years, researchers have shown that diabetic patients with head and neck cancer, may have better outcomes than non-diabetic patients when they are taking the drug metformin for their diabetes. In order to examine this relationship further and understand how metformin changes the biology of cancer cells, researchers at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University tested tumor cells before and after metformin treatment in non-diabetic cancer patients. The pilot clinical trial results were published today in the journal The Laryngoscope.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170125091722.htm

 

[mikeyB]

Interesting work. Wonder if that applies to all tumours.