Treatment with insulin analog X10 and IGF-1 increases growth of colon cancer allografts.

Obesity and type 2 diabetes are associated with an increased risk for development of certain forms of cancer, including colon cancer. The publication of highly controversial epidemiological studies in 2009 raised the possibility that use of the insulin analog glargine increases this risk further. Ho...

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Main Authors: Henning Hvid, Marie-José Blouin, Elena Birman, Jesper Damgaard, Fritz Poulsen, Johannes Josef Fels, Christian Fledelius, Bo Falck Hansen, Michael Pollak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3832545?pdf=render