08-14-2007, 10:44 PM
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Metformin May Combat Cancer
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Science Daily � Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that a commonly prescribed diabetes drug kills tumor cells that lack a key regulatory gene called p53.
Results from current studies in mice may result in new therapies for a subset of human cancers that tend to be aggressive and resistant to existing treatments.
Additionally, the findings open up a new avenue for targeting cancers whose hallmark is the absence of this regulatory gene.
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More than half of all human cancers have lost the p53 gene.
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0814150616.htm
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