Metformin: A dual-role player in cancer treatment and prevention

MA Galal, M Al-Rimawi, A Hajeer, H Dahman… - International journal of …, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Cancer continues to pose a significant global health challenge, as evidenced by the
increasing incidence rates and high mortality rates, despite the advancements made in …

Dissecting the dual role of AMPK in cancer: from experimental to human studies

G Zadra, JL Batista, M Loda - Molecular cancer research, 2015‏ - aacrjournals.org
The precise role of 5′ AMP-activated kinase (AMPK) in cancer and its potential as a
therapeutic target is controversial. Although it is well established that activation of this …

Metformin and risk of cancer among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis

K Zhang, P Bai, H Dai, Z Deng - Primary care diabetes, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Aim We carried out this meta-analysis on all published studies to estimate the overall cancer
risk of the use of metformin in T2DM patients. Methods We searched the PubMed, Embase …

Chemotherapy targeting cancer stem cells

H Liu, L Lv, K Yang - American journal of cancer research, 2015‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Conventional chemotherapy is the main treatment for cancer and benefits patients in the
form of decreased relapse and metastasis and longer overall survival. However, as the …

Risk of gastric cancer development after eradication of Helicobacter pylori

KS Cheung, WK Leung - World journal of gastrointestinal …, 2018‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection is the most important risk factor for gastric cancer
(GC) development through the Correa's gastric carcinogenesis cascade. However, H. pylori …

Metformin Use and Gastric Cancer Risk in Diabetic Patients After Helicobacter pylori Eradication

KS Cheung, EW Chan, AYS Wong… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
Background Although prior studies showed metformin could reduce gastric cancer (GC) risk
in patients with diabetes mellitus, they failed to adjust for Helicobacter pylori infection and …

Repurposing metformin for the treatment of gastrointestinal cancer

ADC Júnior, AC Bragagnoli, FO Costa… - World journal of …, 2021‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Diabetes mellitus type 2 and cancer share many risk factors. The pleiotropic insulin-
dependent and insulin-independent effects of metformin might inhibit pathways that are …

Metformin reduces gastric cancer risk in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

CH Tseng - Aging (Albany NY), 2016‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This retrospective cohort study investigated whether metformin may reduce gastric cancer
risk by using the reimbursement databases of the Taiwan's National Health Insurance …

Metformin-induced anticancer activities: recent insights

S Safe, V Nair, K Karki - Biological chemistry, 2018‏ - degruyter.com
Metformin is a widely used antidiabetic drug, and there is evidence among diabetic patients
that metformin is a chemopreventive agent against multiple cancers. There is also evidence …

Metformin reduces the risk of cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes: An analysis based on the Korean National Diabetes Program Cohort

HJ Kim, SJ Lee, KH Chun, JY Jeon, SJ Han, DJ Kim… - Medicine, 2018‏ - journals.lww.com
The epidemiological literature suggests that insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, and
increased levels of insulin-like growth factors place patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus …