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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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Thiazolidinediones, alpha-glucosidase inhibitors, meglitinides, sulfonylureas, and hepatocellular carcinoma risk: A meta-analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated associations between sulfonylureas, thiazolidinediones, meglitinides and alpha-glucosidase inhibitors, and incident HCC risk.
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Metformin usage and the risk of colorectal cancer: a national cohort study

TL;DR: Metformin users with diabetes appear to have a significantly lower risk of CRC compared with metformin non-users, according to a longitudinally analyzed database of data from the NHIS-HEALS cohort.
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Fructosamine and diabetes as predictors of mortality among Hispanic and non-Hispanic white breast cancer survivors

TL;DR: It is found that women with diabetes had a nearly 3-fold higher risk of dying from their breast cancer and more than a two-fold greater risk for all-cause mortality and better glucose management could improve outcomes for breast cancer survivors with diabetes.

Mechanisms of Action of Metformin as an Anti-cancer Agent

TL;DR: This paper presents a meta-anatomy of the determinants of infectious disease in eight operation rooms and some of the mechanisms leading to disease progression are described.
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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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