Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Popular Diabetes Medication May Also Be Used to Fight Cancer
A recent study has demonstrated that giving mice a combination of low doses of Metformin (brand name Gluophage) with the common chemotherapy medication Doxorubicin (brand name Adriamycin) shrank breast-cancer tumors and prevented their recurrence more effectively than chemotherapy alone.
Chemotherapy is effective against many tumors, said Kevin Struhl, a Harvard Medical School researcher
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