Metformin: a potential therapeutic agent for recurrent colon cancer.

Accumulating evidence suggests that metformin, a biguanide class of anti-diabetic drugs, possesses anti-cancer properties. However, most of the studies to evaluate therapeutic efficacy of metformin have been on primary cancer. No information is available whether metformin could be effectively used f...

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Main Authors: Pratima Nangia-Makker, Yingjie Yu, Anita Vasudevan, Lulu Farhana, Sindhu G Rajendra, Edi Levi, Adhip P N Majumdar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3896365?pdf=render