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    Metformin: Can a dirt-cheap diabetes drug fight cancer?

    Can a dirt-cheap diabetes drug fight cancer?

    By Anne Harding, Health.com
    April 6, 2012 -- Updated 1117 GMT (1917 HKT)

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    In another study, researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston, found that metformin was associated with better outcomes in diabetes patients with pancreatic cancer, an especially aggressive form of cancer.

    The two-year survival rate was 30% among the 117 patients taking metformin and just 15% among 185 patients not on the drug.

    Can a dirt-cheap diabetes drug fight cancer? | CNN
    http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/05/health/diabetes-drug-fights-cancer/index.html
    Each year billions of dollars are spent in the search to find new cancer drugs. Very few of these would-be treatments end up being approved by the government and entering widespread use, which makes it all the more intriguing that one of the most promising new cancer drugs in years is, in fact, an old drug.
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