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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Metformin reduces the invasiveness of endometrial cancer cells by 25%

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A study conducted in women with PCOS published in 2011 found that six months of treatment with metformin decreased the invasiveness of endometrial cancer cells by 25% compared to the activity of the same cells in women with PCOS who had not taken metformin. The design of this study makes it more likely that it is the drug itself, not correlated factors, that explain the anti-cancer effect of metformin.

Metformin Treatment Exerts Antiinvasive and Antimetastatic Effects in Human Endometrial Carcinoma Cells. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism , 2010; 96 (3): 808 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2010-1803

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