Diabetes drug metformin with chemo and radiation may improve outcomes in lung cancer patients

Treating aggressive lung cancer with the diabetes drug metformin along with radiation and chemotherapy may slow tumor growth and recurrence, suggests new preliminary findings from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania being presented during an oral abstract session Oct. 28 at the 15th World Conference on Lung Cancer.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-10/uop…