Diabetes drugs may help control lung cancer: study

Commonly used diabetes drugs such as metformin may help control lung cancer, and may help prevent it, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
The team reviewed the medical records of 157 lung cancer survivors with diabetes.
Those who had taken either a metformin drug or a TZD were significantly less likely to have advanced lung cancer that had spread -- 20 percent of those who took the drugs had tumors that had spread, versus 42 percent of those who had not.

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