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Association of metformin use with cancer incidence and mortality: A meta-analysis

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Metformin can reduce the incidence of overall cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, colorectal cancer and breast cancer as well as the mortality of Overall cancer, Liver cancer and Breast cancer.
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This article is published in Cancer Epidemiology.The article was published on 2013-06-01. It has received 242 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cancer & Breast cancer.

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Systematic review and meta-analysis of the effect of metformin treatment on overall mortality rates in women with endometrial cancer and type 2 diabetes mellitus.

TL;DR: The survival benefit of metformin treatment is associated with a significant reduction in OM irrespective of diabetes status in patients with EC, and suggests that diabetes screening and maintenance of good glycemic control may improve outcomes in EC.
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Metformin, an Anti-diabetic Drug to Target Leukemia.

TL;DR: The anti-leukemic potential of metformin and its mode of action on leukemia metabolism is explored and it is realized that if cancer cells modify and reprogram their metabolism to feed their intense biochemical needs associated with their runaway proliferation, they develop metabolic addictions that could represent attractive targets for new therapeutic strategies that intend to starve and kill cancer cells.
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Metformin Induces Cell Cycle Arrest and Apoptosis in Drug-Resistant Leukemia Cells.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that metformin exerts varying degrees of antitumor activity against human leukemia cells, as reflected by differences in growth inhibition, apoptosis, and alterations to metabolic enzymes.
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Association of Metformin Use With Cancer-Specific Mortality in Hepatocellular Carcinoma After Curative Resection: A Nationwide Population-Based Study.

TL;DR: In this large population-based cohort of patients with comorbid HCC and T2DM, treated with curative hepatic resection, metformin use was associated with improvement of HCC-specific mortality and reduced occurrence of retreatment events.
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Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

TL;DR: A new quantity is developed, I 2, which the authors believe gives a better measure of the consistency between trials in a meta-analysis, which is susceptible to the number of trials included in the meta- analysis.
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Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

TL;DR: Funnel plots, plots of the trials' effect estimates against sample size, are skewed and asymmetrical in the presence of publication bias and other biases Funnel plot asymmetry, measured by regression analysis, predicts discordance of results when meta-analyses are compared with single large trials.
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The influence of glucose-lowering therapies on cancer risk in type 2 diabetes

TL;DR: Those on insulin or insulin secretagogues were more likely to develop solid cancers than those on metformin, and combination with met formin abolished most of this excess risk.
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New Users of Metformin Are at Low Risk of Incident Cancer: A cohort study among people with type 2 diabetes

TL;DR: Results suggest that metformin use may be associated with a reduced risk of cancer in people with type 2 diabetes, and a randomized trial is needed to assess whether met formin is protective in a population at high risk for cancer.
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Metformin and Cancer Risk in Diabetic Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

TL;DR: A comprehensive literature search and meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies to assess the effect of metformin on cancer incidence and mortality in diabetic patients found that the inverse association was significant for pancreatic and hepatocellular cancer, and nonsignificant for colon, breast, and prostate cancer.
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