Metformin and cancer: new applications for an old drug.

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Published in Med Oncol on February 08, 2011

Authors

Taxiarchis V Kourelis1, Robert D Siegel

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Room L2104 MC 1235, 263 Farmington Ave, Farmington, CT 06103-1235, USA. taxkourel@yahoo.com

Associated clinical trials:

The Effects of Neoadjuvant Metformin on Tumour Cell Proliferation and Tumour Progression in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (Metformin 001) | NCT02978547

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