Metformin combined with local irradiation provokes abscopal effects in a murine rectal cancer model

Abstract Although preoperative chemoradiation therapy can down-stage locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC), it has little effect on distant metastases. Metformin exerts an anti-cancer effect partly through the activation of host immunity. LuM1, a highly lung metastatic subclone of colon 26, was inje...

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Main Authors: Mineyuki Tojo, Hideyo Miyato, Koji Koinuma, Hisanaga Horie, Hidenori Tsukui, Yuki Kimura, Yuki Kaneko, Hideyuki Ohzawa, Hironori Yamaguchi, Kotaro Yoshimura, Alan Kawarai Lefor, Naohiro Sata, Joji Kitayama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11236-2