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More favorable progesterone receptor phenotype of breast cancer in diabetics treated with metformin.
Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) - 1 Dec 2011
Berstein Lev M, Boyarkina Marina P, Tsyrlina Evgenia V, Turkevich Elena A, Semiglazov Vladimir F
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The coexistence of type 2 diabetes with breast cancer may result in poorer cancer-related survival due to a number of mediating factors including an alteration of tumor tissue hormonal sensitivity. Previous studies have shown that receptor status of breast tumors in diabetics may be changed; however, the mode of therapy for diabetes was usually ignored. This work presents the results of an analysis of the...
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